Word: oscars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coach Jim Fleming of Eliot House plans to play all of his men an equal time, using Mike Jackson and Oscar Swenson as his goalies...
...Closed squad lineup is as follows: Frank Basius, Hugh Graham, George Leary, Neil Howland, Oscar Swenson, and Bill Whoriskey of Dudley; Larry Boies, Bob Farnham, and Mitch Rosenholz of Dunster; Dean Howells, Mike Jackson, Terry King, Pete Lawson, Mike Ward, and Peter Ward of Eliot...
...brought out a new alphabet which it believed would be more universally pronounceable. The old and the new : OLD NEW Able Alfa Baker Bravo Charlie Coca Dog Delta Easy Echo Fox Foxtrot George Golf How Hotel Item India Jig Juliett King Kilo Love Lima Mike Metro Nan Nectar Oboe Oscar Peter Papa Queen Quebec Roger Romeo Sugar Sierra Tare Tango Uncle Union Victor Victor William Whisky X Ray Extra Yoke Yankee Zebra Zulu The U.S. will probably swing over to the new words by 1952's fall. Until then, risking confusion, the American pilots can spell out messages...
...Graduate of the week: Oscar L. Thompson, 45, a former longshoreman, hospital orderly, drug clerk, waiter and pantryman, who last week got his M.A. in zoology-the first Negro ever to get a degree from the University of Texas...
Died. Philip G. Epstein, 42, who, with his twin brother Julius, made up one of Hollywood's top scenarist teams, chiefly as adapters of plays (The Man Who Came to Dinner), novels (Chicken Every Sunday) and short stories (My Foolish Heart), Oscar winners in 1943 for their screenplay of Casablanca; of cancer; in Los Angeles...