Word: quittings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Holloway Plan was approved by Congress in August 1946, was and is criticized as a waste of taxpayers' money because many men use it to get a college education and quit the Navy after serving their minimum three years. But the Holloway Plan flourished despite the criticism on 52 college campuses coast to coast, and a new quip passed into the Navy vernacular. The quip: "Did you get your commission the hard way [i.e., Annapolis] or the Holloway...
Duren had to endure a long, painful safari through the minor leagues before he nailed down a job on the Yankees. For years he had trouble getting the ball down the middle. In 1949 a doctor, after examining his vision, advised him to quit baseball. But Ryne persisted, finally licked his wildness with the help of Manager Lefty O'Doul at Vancouver in 1956. "He taught me to aim at the catcher's knee, at his shoulder, at his belt," says Duren. "To move it around, one ball high and away, the next low and inside. I tried...
...Baghdad, his rivals were still scrambling to get into Iraq as best they could. Correspondent Daniel F. Gilmore and Photographer Dieter Hespe of United Press International, and NBC's Tom Streithorst, hired a Beirut taxi to drive them the 620 miles between Beirut and Baghdad. When their driver quit at the Syrian border, they hitched a ride on a Syrian potato truck, got another taxi in Damascus. They bought off suspicious Lebanese rebels with cigarettes and bottles of a local brew named arak, steered by the North Star when the road disappeared in the desert...
Businessmen's Lunch. Purring through the crowd was the official Old Monarch himself, 79-year-old Melvin Jones, the man who, as some say, "got the ball rolling" in 1917, when he turned his Chicago businessmen's luncheon club into the founding chapter of Lionism, then quit selling insurance to spend the rest of his life organizing clubs. In those days the luncheon club was primarily a meeting place for businessmen who wanted to meet businessmen. Rotary's pin was reserved for the town's leading man in each line of business; second-ranking Kiwanis, later...
Mahogany-varnished Easterner was soon labeled the hard-luck ship. While being hauled, she fell out of her cradle, got badly scratched. In her first race, her winches fouled up, and she was forced to quit. Designed by C. Raymond Hunt, Easterner is called "a family boat" by her owner, Boston Banker Chandler Hovey, who has tried three times before to produce a Cup defender (with Yankee in 1930 and 1934, with Rainbow in 1937). She will be skippered by his sons Charles and Chandler...