Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Almost anyone can enjoy fully the section on the Black Box scandal but very few will understand the relevance of Mayor Ed Kelley's quoted statement, "I'll do any damned thing you boys want...
...professor called it "the blackest day in the history of the college," and many of his colleagues agreed with him. The College of William and Mary, not yet recovered from its athletic scandal and the resignation of President John Edwin Pomfret (TIME, Sept. 24), was once again in a state of shock. The center of the storm this time: the man who had been chosen as President Pomfret's successor...
...watch, was arrested, tried, convicted and, strangely, given only a life sentence. Now a Yankee journalist named Vitner is carpetbagging in Fredericksville, poking into this old case, trying to fit the pieces of the puzzle together from back newspaper files and court records into a sensational scandal. Icily insolent, he mouths cliches about the "sins of the South" and its "incipient fascism"-which he says only his kind of newspaper exposure will cure...
...hardest shoves football has received resulted from the scandal into which the sport sank at the University of Virginia. The faculty of that university has now approved, 68 to 9, a report of its special committee which recommended general de-emphasis of the sport and specifically abolition of athletic scholarships and athletic subsidies...
...compulsory one-game seminar in football for freshmen. While the freshmen watch, the varsity will scrimmage and a coach will lecture on the plays. Explained one faculty man: too few colleges "ever go to the trouble of indoctrinating their students into the fine points of the game." ¶ Scandal of the week: at the University of Arizona, which expelled its star fullback, placed three other varsity men on permanent probation. Not for cheating, the university explained, or for taking bribes; they had been stealing chickens...