Word: reuben
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unlike most airplane pilots, ex-Marine Reuben Snodgrass waits expectantly for bad weather. When the clouds crowd down, or sea fog rolls in over Long Island's MacArthur Field, Rube and his crew crank up the Sperry Gyroscope Co.'s DC-3 and take...
...jailer-A. J. Allen of Garrett, Ky.: "My relationship on my father's side is that George Allen was my grandfather. Grandmother Allen was the daughter of James P. Patton. My mother was Reuben Stephens' daughter. I am the son of Andrew Allen. My grandmother Stephens was the sister of the late L. Hicks and Jonathan Hicks, of Middle Creek. I married the daughter of Bud Handshoe, of Hueysville, Ky. Her mother was the daughter of Hi Fitch. The deceased George Fitch, of the Mouth of Brush Creek, was her uncle. A few words to mothers: If your...
...Reuben A. Brower, currently a professor at Amherst, will become professor of English and General Education here starting July 1, Provost Buck announced yesterday...
...babies helped the business to get back on key; so did the shorter work week, which provided more leisure time to enjoy music. Nowadays, some 2,000 U.S. cities have classical-music concerts each year, twice as many as before the war. Says President R. C. (for Reuben Charles) Rolfing of Chicago's Rudolph Wurlitzer Co., biggest piano maker in the U.S.: "People are getting back more & more to wanting to do something for themselves-entertaining themselves." Many piano makers, such as Cincinnati's Baldwin Co., have helped the boom along with smart styling, hard selling...
...even the most complacent minds. Alert, young President A. Whitney Griswold, himself a big wheel activities man as an undergraduate, confessed to the CRIMSON several years ago that "Down here we need to start doing things for their own sake, not for what they will lead to." His assistant Reuben A. Holden says "The whole accent down here is group activities while at Harvard a man is left pretty much to himself, whether he wants it or not." Professor Weiss puts it most succinctly: "Harvard is centrifugal, whirling people apart, Yale centripetal, drawing them together in a mass...