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...mainstay of the Quaker attack is Ernie Beck, a 6'4" junior. Shepard calls Beck an "amazing ball player who can jump like a man 6'8" and move like a guard." Beck can score too, as evidenced by the fact that he led the Ivy League last year in scoring with 558 points, and is tied with sophomore teammate Dick Heylmun with a 17 point average in this year's League play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Five Seeks Upset Tonight Over Fast Quaker Team | 2/6/1952 | See Source »

Harvard students are not attending the oldest university in the United States, the Daily Pennsylvanian assorts. Brandishing a copy of Webeter's Dictionary the Quaker paper points out that Penn has sole claim to that honor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Penn Claims Title of Oldest U.S. University | 1/26/1952 | See Source »

...Life. Chicago's Quaker Oats Co. will start putting chlorophyllin in all its Ken-L-Ration dog food, guarantees that after seven days of eating only its new food, dogs will be completely odorless-except to other dogs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Jan. 7, 1952 | 1/7/1952 | See Source »

...modern Friend who speaks in the old tradition is Gilbert Kilpack, 38, writer, lecturer and staff member of the Quaker retreat center, Pendle Hill, at Wallingford, Pa. (TIME, June 21, 1948). Published last week, Kilpack's latest pamphlet, Ninth Hour* (Pendle Hill; 35?),is a voice raised eloquently against the sweetness & light school of Christians. Excerpts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Ninth Hour | 12/24/1951 | See Source »

Married. Lewis S. (for Samuel) Rosenstiel, 60, Cincinnati-born liquor baron, founder and president of Schenley, who once embarked on an unsuccessful campaign to teach 5,000 parrots to say "Drink Old Quaker" and install them in bars; and Louise Johnson Stark, 53, his first cousin, a surgeon's widow; he for the third time, she for the second; in Atlanta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 24, 1951 | 12/24/1951 | See Source »

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