Word: stanford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fleets, invested in coal mines; his cousin was the New York Sun's famed editor-owner. Young Dana was three years out of Columbia law when he became an assistant prosecutor (under William Travers Jerome) in the sensational 1907 trial of Harry Thaw for the murder of Architect Stanford White. It led him into the state legislature as a three-term Republican. A strenuous-life aristocrat in the T.R. style, Lawyer Dana was an off-hours National Guard cavalryman, punched cattle in Mexico summers to stay in shape. At 36 he reorganized New Jersey's Spicer Manufacturing...
...Chris Burford, 21, Stanford; 6 ft. 2½ in., 199 lbs. Major: education. Burford led the nation in pass receiving (61 catches) for 756 yds., six touchdowns. "Great hands, fine speed and size. He's phenomenal, can catch anything, long or short...
...outstanding mastery in either-and mastery in a specialty is a prerequisite for the pro. Sure to be drafted: Notre Dame's George Izo ("He has a pure arm on long passes, there's never a forced effort"), and, although he will wait a year to play, Stanford Junior Dick Norman, an A-minus engineering student who this year had more completions (152) and passing yardage (1,963) than anyone who ever threw steadily against major opposition...
...original Briggs-Copeland program, which was started in the early 1930's employed many instructors who have since grown to national prominence. Notable examples are Professor Mark Schorer of the University of California, Professor Wallace Stegner of Stanford, and Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Wilbur...
...Formerly Stanford University Hospital, but cut adrift when the university moved its medical school to the Palo Alto campus (TIME, Sept...