Word: roland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After a riot in Asbury Park, N.J.'s Convention Hall that sent 25 vibrating teen-agers to the hospital, Mayor Roland J. Hines slapped a rock-'n'-roll ban on all city dance halls. Taking the hint, Jersey City canceled Jazzman Paul Whiteman's "Rock 'n' Roll Under the Stars" show at the 24,000-seat Roosevelt Stadium. Cried anguished Sponsor Ed Otto: "We were executed by remote control...
...Bother. There was no one around to bother the new champ. Roland La Starza, Ezzard Charles and Don Cockell, challengers of minor talents, tried, and they all came to pieces under Rocky's ham-handed macing. Last year Light Heavyweight Champion Archie Moore managed to put Rocky on the canvas for the second time in his pro career, but the champ righted himself as solidly as a hogshead of ale, and in the ninth round knocked Moore out. He was 31, and he still couldn't box, but there was still no one around to bother...
Outgoing officers are president Roland Uziel '57, treasurer John L. Braddock '58, and Secretary Timothy F. Harding...
...Bailey. He was, their records plainly showed, neither a major nor a Woodfall but an operator better known to the Yard as Champagne Charlie. In a lifetime of high living, assuming identities that ranged from that of "Sir Patrick Murphy, ex-governor of the Bahamas" to that of "Roland Jones, heir to a fortune," 35-year-old Charlie had suavely separated hundreds of impressionable Britons from thousands of pounds. Born to middle-class respectability, he had spent a third of his life in jail and only nine months in the army. His only decoration was a dishonorable discharge...
...Like Eureka, 129-year-old Shurtleff College in Alton, Ill. lost its accreditation m 1936. This, says President Roland E. Turnbull, "is something like not having a union label on your product, or the approval seal of the fire underwriters." A Shurtleff coed cannot join a national sorority or be a member of the American Association of University Women. Even worse, the college has already had to resign from the fund-raising Associated Colleges of Illinois. Yet Baptist Shurtleff has managed to make considerable contribution over the years. Among its alumni four college presidents, 112 college and university teachers...