Word: philadelphias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Steve Sebo's high-flying Quakers will face a strong Navy eleven in a toss-up at Franklin Field in Philadelphia. At New Haven, the Yalies, biggest surprise in the League, play host to winless Colgate. Yale is a definite favorite to take its fifth win of the year and may even hold Colgate scoreless...
Robert E. Gross, Ladd Professor of Children's Surgery at the Medical School, will receive the 1959 Albert Lasker Award of the American Heart Association "for distinguished achievement in the field of cardio-vascular research" in Philadelphia Sunday...
...made the official language of the Vatican. Even Pope John XXIII, coached for the past year, prepared to use the newest in his vocabulary of nine languages. And to Rome a mass pilgrimage of American Catholic clergy brought three cardinals (New York's Spellman, Boston's Gushing, Philadelphia's O'Hara), five dozen archbishops and bishops, and scores of other U.S. churchmen for a typically American celebration: Homecoming Day. Most were old grads returning to their alma mater-Rome's North American Pontifical College, a stern seminary for U.S. priests that this week celebrated...
...farm, Dixon is an Antioch graduate (1939). He did the school's part-time circuit (alternating terms of study and work) by night clerking and bus building, went on to Harvard Medical School and a career in public health. Dr. Dixon did a notable seven-year job as Philadelphia's commissioner of public health, became known as an able administrator with a keen sense of politics. At Antioch, which has some reputation for progressive preciousness as well as for successful schooling, Dixon announced that he aims to "invade the frontiers of the status...
...willed National Football League Commissioner (1946-59) who, by a liberal use of his powers and an occasional violation of the letter of the bylaws, turned professional football into a booming sport, aroused interest to the point of doubling attendance and players' salaries; after a heart attack; in Philadelphia...