Word: sibley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...WALTER SIBLEY...
...cover the record-making flight: the U.S. News & World Report's A. Robert Ginsburgh, 63, a retired Air Force brigadier general, and Glen A. Williams, 41; TIME-LIFE'S Washington Bureau Chief James L. McConaughy Jr., 42; the Boston Traveler's veteran aviation writer, Robert B. Sibley, 57; United Press International's foreign affairs writer Norman J. Montellier, 37; Associated Press's Daniel J. Coughlin...
Robert B. Sibley, 57, aviation editor of the Boston Traveler...
...American Heritage, Rene Kuhn Bryant records Sibley's labors. His first volume, a record of "strange experience in childhood, brave struggles to obtain an education, of virtue and heroism under temptations of wealth and worldly honor," appeared in 1873, his second in 1881. Ailing and past 70, he draped himself in a shawl, wore three pairs of spectacles at once to help his dimming eyesight, and continued burrowing through the archives of the Massachusetts Historical Society. In 1885 he published a third volume, completing the biographies through the class of 1689. He died the same year, but Librarian Sibley...
...class of 1800 in his lifetime, then revised his hopes downward to the classes of the Revolution. Now, at 55, he figures to hymn the sons of Harvard through 1765, the year of the Stamp Act. Progress so far: seven more volumes and part of the eighth, extending Sibley's sketches to the class...