Word: ross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Preacher's Son. Tall (6 ft. 1 in.), smooth Bill Stevenson, 42, onetime Princeton track star, is a descendant of Jonathan Edwards, the New England preacher. His grandfather was a minister; his father, the late J. Ross Stevenson, was president of Princeton Theological Seminary. His twin brothers are missionaries; one is a prisoner of the Japs in Manila. Bill was graduated from Princeton in 1922, won a Rhodes Scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford, ran on the U.S. Olympic team which set a mile record in Paris in 1924. He and Bumpy lived with their two daughters in a remodeled...
...Harold Ross, picket-toothed editor of The New Yorker, read in Exquisite Lucius Beebe's rococo column that he was shy a front tooth. Ross wrote in reply that he had all his front teeth, had a whopping gap between two of them, had refused his dentist's suggestion that it be filled in. Cried Ross to Beebe: ". . . You are making an eccentric...
...Lean, quiet Ross Munro (Canadian Press), one of the best of all war reporters, went in with the Canadians and scooped the world. His copy, filed via Malta and London, was the first eyewitness story out of Sicily. It beat every U.S. correspondent by hours. Canadians, recalling how the Hearst press misplayed the Dieppe raid (which Munro covered) as an American adventure, felt compensated...
...game was known as kittenball among Chicago's early devotees. Other things that Patron Wrigley objected to were the unladylike costumes affected by the players and the undignified names their sponsors tagged on them - such as Slapsie. Maxie's Curvaceous Cuties, the Num Num Pretzel Girls, Barney Ross's Adorables and the Dr. Pepper Girls of Miami Beach...
...Captain Ross F. Jones recently returned from Miami Beach, where he assisted in the selection of Class 8-43, a "midget" class, for it will be composed of less than 100 members. The Officer Candidates will take over Mellon Hall today, April 16. In order to justify their temporary reduction in size, we shall expect 100 per cent in graduation. The entire military and civilian staff of the Statistical School joins in saying "Welcome" to the Officer Candidates, and trust that their stay will prove a happy and beneficial...