Word: posts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just after zero, the blast burst down into the undulating swamp fog; there came a cloud of fiery gold that swept smoke and flame into eddying billows. As the rocket rose roaring, 100 newsmen cheered from the observation post a mile away, and down on the nearby beaches men, women and children, camped out in tents, told each other that this was a night to remember...
...Miami Beach last week 146 bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church elected a new presiding bishop to succeed Boston's Rt. Rev. Henry Knox Sherrill who, after almost twelve years in the post, next month reaches the mandatory retirement age of 68. The new "P.B.": the Rt. Rev. Arthur C. Lichtenberger, 58, Bishop of Missouri since...
...also known as a wheel in the ecumenical movement. When he heard of his election in Miami Beach, Bishop Lichtenberger went for a swim and wryly told his wife that he would like to keep right on swimming-east. Was he reluctant to take up his new post? "Yes. This is not a thing one chooses...
...since 1925, when Pittsburgh did it to Washington, had a team come off the floor to win after losing three of the first four series games. Post-mortem accolades went to the Yankees' burly Turley, who had a hand in every one of the last three-in-a-row victories-winning one singlehanded, getting the last out in another, saving the final game with a spectacular 6| innings of two-hit relief pitching. Hard-bitten Rightfielder Hank Bauer led the Yankees at bat with a .323 average and four home runs. But the man Milwaukee will remember most vividly...
Kiphuth, who will be 68 in November, was forced to leave his post due to Yale's mandatory retirement age. He has been at Yale since...