Word: poling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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California's Guinn Smith, who twice has cleared 14 feet 2 inches in Coast meets, should dominate the pole vault field. Yale's Tom Lussen and Pitt's Doyle Rhodes should divide second and third places, and Steve Madey and Marshall MacIsaac of Harvard, Ken Perkins of Rhode Island State, and Ed Macomber of Yale will battle for the other points...
...rainy morning last week newsmen and photographers picked their way across Maryland's Aberdeen Proving Ground to a wooden stand overlooking a large, wet field. Soldiers stood on guard. In the middle of the field, some 2,500 feet away, stood a gibbety-looking pole, with a baglike object suspended from it. From the pendent object oozed a steamy vapor...
Tethered to stakes at varying distances from the pole were 84 goats munching grass, occasionally...
What everyone had come to see was the explosion of this steaming bag a new explosive called "glmite," invented by Lester Pence Barlow. Mr. Barlow had already impressed a joint Congressional military and naval affairs committee by blowing up a telephone pole. Congressmen wanted to see what Mr. Barlow's glmite would do to the 84 goats. Newsmen, on the advice of army officers, practiced opening their mouths and stuffing their fingers in their ears, glanced anxiously from the suspended bomb to a nearby ambulance. Everything was ready. Two truckloads of irreverent army goatherds amused themselves by bleating...
Critically ill of apoplexy in Port Chester, N. Y. lay ex-Explorer Dr. Frederick Albert Cook, 74, who insists he beat Peary to the North Pole on April 21, 1908. Convicted in 1923 of using the mails to defraud, he was paroled in 1930. On his sick bed he was informed last week (by his Explorer Friend Ralph Shainwald von Ahlefeldt) that President Roosevelt had granted him a full pardon, restored his civil rights. Gasped Dr. Cook: "Thanks -happy," sank back into a coma...