Word: pa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...collegiate final round of the U.S. Public Links Championship at Hershey, Pa., L.S.U. Sophomore Don Essig, 18, was far too steady for S.M.U.'s Gene Towry, 28, won by an impressive 6 and 5 and earned an automatic invitation to the National Amateur in September...
Died. Ward Vinton Evans, 74, chemistry professor emeritus at Chicago's Jesuit Loyola University, and dissenting member of the three-man board that declared Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer a security risk in 1954; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Lancaster, Pa. The majority felt that Oppenheimer showed a "susceptibility to influence" and a "serious disregard" of U.S. security requirements that raised reasonable doubt, not of his loyalty, but of his judgment. Scientist Evans countered, in a two-page minority report, that the atomic scientist's judgment, while sometimes bad, was better than in 1947 when a Truman loyalty board...
When Mrs. Yovicsin didn't hear from him, she called Harvard and then alerted the police; and the hunt was on, only to end quite unspectacularly when Yovicsin called back to civilization from his golfing retreat in Allentown, Pa...
Slot Luck. In Uniontown, Pa., Mrs. Ann Pratt testified during an inquiry into "for amusement only" pinball machines, that she had once spent five hours and $110 trying to get back $25, was still determined to keep playing until she won back the $3,000 she had lost over the past four years...
Catholic Taste. In Spring Creek, Pa., the sheriff was trying to deduce what sort of thieves they were who robbed Andrew Szewczuk of 1) 300 lbs. of frozen beef, 2) 1,000 phonograph records, 3) 40 gallons of paint, 4) a hot-water tank, 5) a grass seeder, 6) a leather jacket, 7) a pair of roller skates, and 8) some false-teeth powder...