Word: seniors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After reading the publicity given to ex-Communist Whittaker Chambers, Senior Editor of TIME Magazine, my first impulse is to cancel my subscription. It is inconceivable that a news publication of such influence can knowingly employ anyone who has ever been a Communist...
...Ralph Singleton, senior geneticist at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, announced that he had "redesigned" the field corn plant, and had reduced its height from 14 to 6 feet to make it easier for a man to reach its top ears...
...Communism went into their third week, one fact stood out in everyone's mind: someone was lying in his teeth. The someone was either handsome, 43-year-old Alger Hiss, until 1947 a top official in the State Department, or ex-Communist Courier Whittaker Chambers, now a senior editor of TIME. By week's end, it was clear that on one vital point it was not Whittaker Chambers who was lying...
Philadelphia's fast, rangy, young (24) Victor Seixas (rhymes with gracious), a University of North Carolina senior with a cannonball service and a neat drop shot, upset top-seeded Schroeder in the quarterfinals, 2-6, 6-4, 8-6, 6-4, before losing in the semifinals. It was the second tournament defeat in a row for Schroeder, who just wasn't in shape...
Next day Bob agreed, thought he would retire from decathlon competition, the undefeated champion. That didn't mean he was through with athletics: it was in his blood. In his senior year of high school this year, he was captain and fullback of Tulare's championship football team, a basketball letterman, captain of the track team (California scholastic champion in the high & low hurdles). He hasn't decided where to go to college, but leans to Stanford...