Word: panning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dated coeds. Remembers one: "He was pretty forward, but he was good company." Pledged to Sigma Nu, his father's fraternity, Herman helped guide a revolt by smaller fraternities against the big three-Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Chi Phi and Kappa Alpha-that traditionally controlled the university's Pan Hellenic Society. For his politicking, Herman won some patronage: the Pan Hellenic presidency in his senior year. Like his father, he joined the Phi Kappa debating society, but there was a difference in their styles. Campus audiences remembered Gene's chewing tobacco while he declaimed, pausing periodically to spit...
...SUBSIDY CUT will cost Pan American World Airways $9,800,000 annually, unless the company can change CAB's mind. After pegging Pan Am's total subsidy and mail pay at $24.1 million last year, CAB now thinks level is too high in view of airline's 9.6% return on its investment during fiscal 1956. Pending hearing, CAB has suspended all subsidy payments, will authorize only $14.4 million in actual service mail...
Died. Albert Von Tilzer, 78 (born Gumm), longtime artisan of Tin Pan Alley, who wrote (1908) Take Me Out to the Ball Game (with Lyricist Jack Norworth), reputedly did not see a baseball game until 20 years later, also turned out Heart of My Heart, I'll Be with You in Apple Blossom Time and Oh How She Could Yacki Hacki Wicki Wacki Woo; in Los Angeles...
AIRLINE DEAL between U.S. Government, Pan American World Airways and Afghanistan will turn underdeveloped nation into international air link. U.S. will lend Afghanistan some $14 million to revamp antiquated Afghan Aryana airline, buy new planes and build first-class field with 12,000-ft. runway at Kandahar near the Pakistan border. Pan American will supervise modernization and get option to buy 49% of Aryana's stock...
Gibb calls the masses "not narrowly national, but pan-Arab," although they lack a basic social philosophy or institutions to canalize their will...