Word: pennsylvania
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Before coming to Harvard, Zilahy attended the George School in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where he was editor of the school newspaper...
...Pennsylvania-bred Trumpeter Vaughn Monroe, fronting for a five-piece Boston society combo, was about as low on the bandleaders' register as a man could get. Now & then he would try to jolt his cocktail-and coming-out party patrons from their fox trot and rumba rut by booming Ave Maria or Glory Road in the aggressive baritone he was training for opera in his spare time. But mostly he gave them "what was called for-a hundred and twenty-eight beats to the minute-the debutante stuff and the businessman's bounce...
Mixing blood with different Rh characteristics may have harmful after-effects extending far beyond infant anemia, the University of Pennsylvania announced this week. Trying to get at the cause of hearing defects in 50 children suffering from a type of cerebral palsy, researchers in the Audiology Section found that every one of the afflicted children was the product of a mixed Rh ancestry. Now the researchers are checking on other hearing defects, not connected with cerebral palsy, to see whether Rh incompatibility is also the villain...
Albert Edmund (Ted) Wolf '51, of Jenkintown, Pennsylvania and Adams House, was elected next fall's soccer captain by the 19 lettermen who gathered yesterday at Dillon Field-House...
...Pennsylvania Railroad was making up for lost time. Though it was one of the last major U.S. railroads to dieselize, it was finally retiring steam locomotives at a fast clip and stepping up its purchase of diesel-electric equipment. Last week it took its biggest step yet: it ordered 226 locomotives, costing some $38 million, from six manufacturers.* The new order will give Pennsy the largest number of diesel locomotives (820) of any U.S. railroad...