Word: muskingum
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John Herschel Glenn Jr., 37, Marine lieutenant colonel; 180 lbs, 5 ft. 10½ in., green eyes, red hair (thinning in front). Presbyterian (Sunday school teacher). Born: Cambridge. Ohio; attended Muskingum College at New Concord, Ohio (1939-42), but quit to enter service in 1942. Glenn is the Astronauts' top-ranking, most experienced officer (more than 5,000 flight hours, 1,500 in jets), has seen the most combat (59 World War II fighter-bomber missions in the Pacific, 100 missions, three MIGs downed in Korea), carries the weightiest decorations (five Distinguished Flying Crosses, 19 Air Medals...
Army Hands. The partnership had its beginnings in work with the U.S. Army Engineers. Founder of the firm, the late Theodore Knappen, was a West Pointer who worked as an engineer with the Army's flood-control project on Ohio's Muskingum River in 1935. Working with him were two other civilian engineers, Ernest Tippetts and Gerald McCarthy, who later joined his private firm with Robert Abbett. An ex-Army engineer, Brigadier General James H. Stratton, Knappen's West Point classmate, came in two years before Knappen's death in 1951. Their work is scattered...
...Antioch, Ashland, Bluffton, Capital, Defiance, Denison, Findlay, Heidelberg, Hiram, Kenyon, Lake Erie, Mount Union, Muskingum, Notre Dame College, Oberlin, Ohio Wesleyan, Otterbein, Western and Wooster...
Swollen Waters. The change had no more effect on racing conditions. The night before the race, a 5-in. downpour started flash floods on the tributary Muskingum which flows into the course a furlong below the scheduled starting line. By race time, 60-ft. logs and huge masses of debris were sweeping down the Muskingum and onto the course. Even before the downpour struck, Ulbrickson, whose Washington crew had drawn an inside lane, complained that the Muskingum flow "hits you broadside like the wash from a big boat...