Word: ogburn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Voice of Experience. In New Bern, N.C., applying for a marriage license, Alec Ogburn gave his age-111-and that of his bride-to-be-22-and told the wide-eyed clerk: "Don't laugh at me, lady . . . If I don't get along with her, I reckon...
...University of Chicago's WILLIAM F. OGBURN, 64, the top social statistician in the U.S., onetime director of research for President Hoover's Committee on Social Trends. In 40 years of teaching and research, Sociologist Ogburn has delved deep into everything from living costs to population movements and the tyranny of the machine. His plans after retiring: "I want to spend three months seeing every athletic event in Chicago, then I want to go to all the movies, then I would like to spend several years traveling-I haven't seen the Orient yet-and I want...