Word: nj
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also the picture painted by a dignified, stern-looking man with white hair and a white goatee-Frederick Remington, 81, retired employee of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., father of the man on trial. Son William, he said, had served as an acolyte at the family's Ridgewood, NJ. church. The elder Remington, a staunch Republican, did not agree with his son's "idea of New Dealism...he was radical in that respect." But Frederick Remington was confident that his son had never been a member of the Communist Party...
Died. Dr. Francis Carter Wood, 81, longtime head of Columbia University's Crocker Institute for Cancer Research; in Englewood, NJ. Practical-minded Dr. Wood greeted most reports of new cancer preventives and cures with bluff skepticism, devoted himself to improving existing surgical and radiological means of treatment...
Later that day Popko was taken to the Pusan airfield and flown to a hospital near Tokyo. Two weeks later they sent him home to Bayonne, NJ. A lot of people asked him would he do it again-enlist if he knew what was ahead? Said Stan Popko: "I guess I would. I can't see myself spending my life as a counterman or hanging around streetcorners...
...golfscapes is relieved, now & then, by a whiff of romantic feeling. "I have allowed myself the privilege," he says in the catalogue foreword, "of interpreting each hole in the time of day, or season of the year, that seemed most appropriate. For instance the 5th hole at [Clementon, NJ.'s] Pine Valley was painted on a grey morning, after an all-night rain. Pine Valley is a rugged course, as all golfers know, and this is reached with a 218-yd. shot uphill. The green . . . is as formidable as a medieval castle...
...untapped source of American folk music," NBC sent its special events reporter W. W. Chaplin out on the Barnegat with a tape recorder to get some of the songs down for posterity. By that time, following the season north, the Barnegat was working out of Little Egg Harbor, NJ...