Word: nicholson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Meredith Nicholson, 81, last survivor of Indiana's literary Golden Age (his late contemporaries: James Whitcomb Riley, George Ade, Booth Tarking-ton), writer of once popular novels (The House of a Thousand Candles, The Port of Missing Men); in Indianapolis. Romancer Nicholson, who felt that "you have got to get some brains into public office," turned from literature to politics, practiced what he preached as Indianapolis city councilman, diplomat (U.S Minister to Paraguay, Venezuela, Nicaragua...
When Hal Moffle snagged a Jim Kenary forward and scooted 30 yards to set up Harvard's first win in a month Saturday, the coaching prowess of Freshman mentor Henry Nicholson Lamar as well as that of Dick Harlow came in for a put on the back. For the Kenary-Moffie combo first clicked in last Fall's yarding eleven, which catapulted a record seven players to this year's Varsity ranks...
...coffee port of New Orleans, Publisher Ralph Nicholson of the Item deleted the name of Detective Dick Tracy's current villain "Coffyhead" from every strip, making gibberish out of some of the speeches and captions. ("Coffyhead" is a no-good who earned his nickname by always brewing his evil deeds over a cup of coffee.) Publisher Nicholson explained that he considered the name "a nasty and unfair reflection on a fine beverage...
Yesterday's Linoups: Winthrop-ss, Nicholson; 3b, Koye; c, Mosely; of, Howe; 1b, Gray; rf, Ways; 2b, Coolidge; 1f Gardner; p, Wood. Dunster-2b, Aldrich; ef, Weeks; 1b, Harney; 1f, Peterson; rf, Thompson; ss, Gulney; 3b, Alport; c; Jackson; p, Easton, Okamura...
Winthrop--lf, McGiffert; 1b, Forster; p, Bixler; 2b, Ways; ss, Nicholson; c, Aloian; 3b, Welsh; cf, Wallace; rf, Ecob, Williams. Leverett--2b, Hollingshead; lf, Eder; 3b, Holober; 1b, Thorn; cf, Cameren; c, McKearney; p, Melahn; ss, Sears; rf, Culler...