Word: potter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...peacetime robes ten years ago. It was a time of victory; a war-weary world stirred with hope of something better. As the U.N.'s founding fathers were gathering in San Francisco, the bodies of Benito Mussolini and Clara Petacci were lowered into potter's field graves in Milan. Midway through the conference came the news that Hitler was dead. In the Utah desert, while the Pacific war raged on past Okinawa, a B-29 named Enola Gay was secretly being tested to carry the bomb that would make Japan, already defeated, plunge headlong into surrender...
Meanwhile, the junior class had elected Guy C. Holbrook, Jr. '20 of Clifton as president to succeed Wallace Harper '30. G. L. Lewis '30 was chosen vice-president, with J. W. Potter '30 as secretary...
Chosen on the Class Day Committee were James G. Douglas, Jr., William Wetmore, Josiah Potter, Foster S. Davis, Vincent L. Hennessy, Charles B. Lakin, and James L. Ware. John Cross was the Class Secretary...
Yale was also a powerhouse that fall, so much so that many observers considered it "the greatest Eli gridiron machine since the war." The varsity's 14-0 loss was thus sustained without the loss of Crimson honor, and despite the hard running of Harper and fullback Josiah W. Potter, another sophomore...
Conversation (Sat. 8 p.m., NBC). What Would I Do If I Had Only Six Months to Live? Discussed by Henry Morgan, Stephen Potter, Clifton Fadiman...