Word: pa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Firestone's beautiful bay colt, Summer Tan, slogged through sloppy going in the Garden State Stakes, needed little help from Jockey Eric Guerin to win the world's richest ($269,965) horse race. Summer Tan's share of the purse: $151,095.75. ¶ At Harrisburg, Pa., a team of sharp Spanish riders ran up a three-day total of only twelve faults in nine international jumping classes, to win the 104th Cavalry Challenge Trophy at the Pennsylvania National Horse Show. Second: Mexico, with 16½ faults. Third: the U.S. team, which had won the cup for four...
Lesser Evil. In Homeville, Pa., when Burglar Edward Maszle was given his choice of spending 18 months in a reformatory or a penitentiary, he told the judge: "I prefer the penitentiary because there are too many young punks in reformatories who would get me in trouble...
Bucknell University of Lewisburg, Pa., will replace Ohio University on the Crimson football schedule next fall, it was learned last night. This first encounter in history between the two teams will be the only change from the 1954 schedule...
...Duke's successor: the Very Reverend Thomas Chappell, 48, popular Dean of the Cathedral Church of St. Stephen in Harrisburg, Pa. A Hotchkiss boy himself (class of '24), Dean Chappell graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Yale, later went on to the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Mass. His plans for Hotchkiss are, in a sense, ambitious. They are nothing less than to give the sort of spiritual and intellectual education long provided under The Duke-a training in 'the habitual contemplation of greatness" for the production of men "sensitive to the good, competent, imaginative, ready...
...General Dwight D. Eisenhower, proposed a revision of the Lord's Prayer. The phrase "Lead us not into temptation" should be changed to "Let us not fall when tempted," said General Lee, who is now vice president of the laymen's Brotherhood of St. Andrew in York, Pa. "The original phrase is wrong, because no Christian can be spared temptation...