Word: stanton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gift of the Week: $3,500,000 set aside by the Ford Foundation for a six-year study of "social relations and human behavior." Headed by Frank Stanton, Ph.D. (in psychology) and president of the Columbia Broadcasting System, a board of directors will plan a center for advanced study, where some 50 scholars and scientists will study "factors which influence or determine human conduct...
Winners of the Boylston Prize for the excellence of their medical dissertations are: First Prize, Stanton Segal of Camden, N.J. Second Prize, William L. Morgan, Jr., of Honolulu. Honorable Mention, James S. Bernstein'48, of Brooklyn...
...raffish crew of about 70 young Chinese in faded khaki and peaked military caps, and with Colt revolvers, Mauser automatics and bandoleers. Their leader, a slim, handsome man whose badge of office appeared to be a pair of brown leather gloves, made a short speech. Money, said he. Stanton was ordered to send his lifeboat back to the Wing Sang, to pick up $10.000 in ransom, and a passenger or two as hostages...
Their leader made another speech. "Gold," he demanded. "The only damned gold we have is my watch," Captain Stanton snapped, ripping it off his wrist and handing it over. The pirate chief ordered two of the crewmen who had accompanied Stanton to hand over their wristwatches...
...Anything But Sinister." For three hours the pirates haggled with Stanton and Stansbury. "They all looked intelligent, anything but sinister," Stansbury reported later. "That was what made them so sinister." Finally the pirates allowed their hostages to return to the Wing Sang, and faded into the darkness...