Word: smyth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most Americans willingly accept the notion that physical fitness is valuable for just about everyone. Now, Stanford University Drs. Jose Montero and Kenneth Smyth have the audacity to wonder if it is such a good thing...
...Henry D. Smyth, SC.D., physicist and member of Atomic Energy Commission from 1949 to 1954. It is to your unending credit that the domestic climate did not prevent you from being the sole commissioner to cast his vote in approval of the then-disputed loyalty of a fellow physicist, J. Robert Oppenheimer...
...Terry Downes, in a light-heavyweight championship bout at Manchester, England. Bewildered by the determined, bull-like charges of the challenger (who works as a bookmaker when he is not fighting), outfought for ten rounds, Champion Pastrano came out swinging in the 11th, decked Downes twice before Referee Andy Smyth stopped the bout...
...there is more to it than that. The State News covered the state legislature with such thoroughness that the Wilmington papers' one-man Dover bureau hollered for reinforcements-and got them. Smyth's men scored a clean beat over the Wilmington dailies with a story about a state welfare department scandal-in Wilmington. During the severe Atlantic Coast storm that wrecked Delaware for two March days in 1962, State News coverage was far superior to that of the Wilmington papers...
After ten years, Dover has grown accustomed to Jack Smyth's labyrinthine ways, including his three arrests for drunkenness-all of them reported in the State News. Today the State News is a Dover institution, like the girdle factory. It has a circulation of 13,112, and has shaved some 5,000 off the circulation of the competitive Wilmington Journal in what Jack Smyth now regards as part of his own backyard...