Word: ormond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pianist Humby's chief concern in the U.S. is raising money for London's Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, in which her second brother is chief surgeon. Another concern is broadcasting to Britain by short wave. Pianist Humby hopes that last week's CBS program was heard by her mother, a night rescue worker in London. Miss Humby does not yet know whether her earlier broadcast was picked up where it was aimed-the aircraft carrier Illustrious, whose commander at that time was her brother...
Official announcement of the signing of De Ormond "Tuss" McLaughry as head football coach at Dartmouth came late yesterday from Hanover. McLaughry thus concludes 15 years as head coach at Brown, succeeding his close friend Earl "Red" Blaik...
...Leon Ormond, a teacher in the Arts High School of Newark, N. J., has two classes of children with I. Q.s of 80 or less. Their reading is poor, their spelling worse. But Teacher Ormond encouraged them to write verses. Last week he triumphantly reported that near-morons can write. To prove it he published uncorrected samples of their poetry in The Clearing House, an educational magazine. Sample...
...Ormond concluded that a dull child may be "every bit as imaginative" as a brighter one, has certain advantages as a poet: 1) because he has read less, his poetry is innocent of cliches; 2) because his reactions are more primitive ("He is more apt to be a jitterbug"), his poetry has rhythm...
...ORMOND LAWSON JOHNSTON...