Word: sheldon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...career as an infantry officer, Major Tim Sheldon had poured "a gallon of living into a pint pot of time." Battle-beaten at 24, he felt like an old man. What Tim Sheldon was really looking forward to, when his North Africa sector quieted down one day, was two, maybe three successive nights of sleep. But Division HQ wanted to know whether the Germans had pulled out of White Farm. There was only one way to find out. Somebody had to cross no man's land and look...
Three seniors have been awarded Sheldon Prize Fellowships for graduate study abroad, Dean Leighton announced yesterday...
...whole Foster family skates, with Sidney taking lessons since she was ten year old. She spent summers at Sault Ste. Marie and Schumacher, Ontario, with skating mentors Freddy Moscot and Sheldon Galbraith--tutors of Barbara Ann Scott...
Died. Lolita Sheldon Armour, 83, wealthy widow of Meat Packer J. Ogden Armour (son of Packing House Founder P. D. Armour); in Lake Forest, Ill. A queen of Chicago society through World War I, she fell on hard times as the collapse of the top-heavy meat market at war's end began melting away her husband's $150 million Armour-plated fortune. When he died in 1927, she inherited debts that ate up her personal fortune, forced her to move from sumptuous 846-acre "Mellody Farm" (now the site of Lake Forest Academy) to a modest Chicago...
Rocky Mountain Belle. Her essential character and outlook were formed as the daughter of a well-to-do family in Denver, back in the comfortable years before World War I. Her father, bulky, hearty John Sheldon Doud, had retired as an Iowa meat packer at the gratifying age of 36, had moved his family west, built a massive, three-story brick house on Denver's Lafayette Street, and settled down to enjoy life with his four daughters* and a snorting series of early automobiles...