Word: pryor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Main Chance. At Pryor, Okla., when his boat capsized, J. E. Stamper lost his shirt, hat, shoes, three rods & reels and the outboard motor, but managed to hold on to the 50-lb. catfish he was trying to land...
...Navy pilot (he did not get overseas), he returned to Yale's Sheffield Scientific School. He organized a flying club and an intercollegiate air meet, which he helped to win in a souped-up Jennie. He also became fast friends with a rough-cut classmate named Samuel F. Pryor, now his right-hand man. The old school tie is strong at Pan Am: Vice Presidents Howard B. Dean, Franklin Gledhill and David S. Ingalls were all Trippe contemporaries at Yale...
...because, as one politico commented: Trippe has not wasted his time and strength fighting regulation; he has learned to make it work for him. He did well under a Republican administration, did even better under the New Deal. His political fences are always carefully tended. Pan Am Vice President Pryor, onetime Republican national committeeman from Connecticut, knows his way round G.O.P. circles in Washington. On the Democratic side, Pan Am has Vice President J. Carroll Cone, onetime Army pilot and all-around air expert, who campaigned and raised money for Truman before Philadelphia and helped keep his native Arkansas from...
Died. Thomas Pryor Gore, 78, Oklahoma's onetime Democratic Senator (1907-21, 1931-37); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Washington. Totally blind from the age of 14, Isolationist Gore was one of the first two Senators elected when Oklahoma became a state, amazed his colleagues with his ability to rattle off facts & figures from memory on the Senate floor...
Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 9:30 p.m., ABC). Bringing down the curtain for the season: Irene Dunne, Roger Pryor and Audrey Christie, in Reflected Glory...