Word: starter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Talk More." Charlie Wilson had an inventive mind. The son of Ohio schoolteacher parents, he went to work for the Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co. in Pittsburgh as an 18?-an-hour apprentice engineer, by the time he was 22 had designed Westinghouse's first auto starter and was on his way up. He also had a touch for labor-management relations. Having moved to General Motors and become its youngest vice president, at 38, he was assigned by G.M. President William Knudsen to take charge of the corporation's dealings with labor. "You have more patience than...
Behind the forward wall supplies are limited. The varsity graduated six halfbacks last spring, and letterman Tony Davies is the only almost-sure starter in one of the slots this year. Billy Ward, last year called the "backbone of the freshmen" by Yardling Coach Dana Getchell, has not had a heavy workout this year because of illness, but he will have to be reckoned with soon...
...death, one high-ranking officer turned to another. "I suppose we should lower the flag." he said dully. "Yes." replied the other, "perhaps we should." Below, news was already spreading from floor to floor. Pale and shaken employees gathered in groups in the corridors. In the lobby, an elevator starter sobbed openly...
...salesman, Lance was a slow starter. "I used to be ashamed," recalls his mother. "All my girl friends had children who could sing nursery rhymes. Lance didn't even say anything." Little did Mamma know. Just after he turned two, Lance began identifying cars by make. His mother thought he did it by recognizing shapes; it turned out that Lance was reading the name plates. In kindergarten, he unnerved the teacher by reading aloud to other tots during rest period. He mastered the multiplication table in three days, zipped through all six elementary grades in one year...
Senior center Tony Watters is still on the injured list with a sprained knee. Fullback Dave Ward has been troubled by an infected finger, but luckily, that won't hurt his toe. Sophomore Ed Legg has been switched to fullback behind starter Bill Grana, Ward, and Fred Bartl...