Word: penns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...work and attracted almost no attention. Then Alliance President Quentin Smith Jr. suggested that the members concentrate on a mass portrait of some regional industry. That year they settled on the Pennsylvania Power & Light Co. Their single-theme show, "Portrait of Power," was a hit with the community, and Penn Power bought up 25 canvases for a permanent exhibition. Last year, the alliance chose the Call-Chronicle newspapers of Allentown as their group subject, called the results "Portrait of a Free Press." The delighted papers bought up 71 alliance paintings, sent a batch of them on tour to other cities...
...signers: John Chamberlain, John Dos Passos, Max Eastman, James T. Farrell, Alfred Kazin, William Phillips, Katherine Anne Porter, Allen Tate, Lionel Trilling, Peter Viereck, Robert Penn Warren, Thornton Wilder, Edmund Wilson...
Until the qualifying rounds began, only Ashenfelter himself would have bet much on his chances. A former Penn State distance man, and an ex-Air Force lieutenant, he had won the National Amateur Athletic Association's 10,000-meter championship in 1950, the 3,000-meter steeplechase title the next year. But he had run the steeplechase only eight times in all before going to Helsinki. And there he was up against the world's toughest competition: Russia's Vladimir Kazantsev, the Soviet Union's best bet for a gold medal in men's track...
...Punitive? The big moment of the 1950 rebellion came at the Penn Sheraton Hotel in Philadelphia. Duff, who was planning to run for U.S. Senator, made a rousing speech urging the group to pick an anti-Grundy candidate for governor. The majority picked Fine...
...pitching days. That was in 1944. He spent the next two seasons in the Army. Back in the Quaker City League in 1947, he improved his pitching (14-0), his batting (up to .497), and kept busy on weekends by pitching another team, Souderton, to the Eastern Penn League championship with eight more victories...