Word: stints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Midfielder Bill Graham reported to the Crimson squad this week after a thesis stint, and Munro will start the lanky senior in the second midfield in place of Ripper Lynch, who will be taking a Law School exam...
...time the Empire Marshal had finished her Indo-China stint, the Korean war had begun. Her charterers, London ship brokers P. B. Pandelis Co., signed her up with the U.S. Navy's Military Sea Transportation Service. The Empire Marshal began ferrying soldiers from Japan to Korea. The crew got to know and like their passengers. The morning after the first assault landings at Inchon the Empire Marshal went in with tanks. When the Red Chinese began to close in on Hungnam and Wonsan last December, the Empire Marshal was waiting offshore to evacuate U.S. and British troops. Master...
...past year, Bill Long has been doing Smith's job while Smith was serving as a deputy to W. Stuart Symington on the National Security Resources Board. Last week, when Smith finished his Government stint and came home, Bill Long decided to take a rest on his 11,000-acre Rough Creek Ranch, 90 miles southwest of Dallas, where he plays polo with local ranchers and businessmen. "The way to live to an old age," says he, "is to spend a lot of time on a horse. You can't take a horse into an office, a pool...
Died. Edward Trowbridge ("Eddie") Collins, 63, star of the Philadelphia Athletics' "hundred-thousand-dollar infield" (1906-14), described by Connie Mack as "the greatest second baseman who ever lived"; of heart disease; in Boston. Among his records: a lifetime batting average of .333; the longest stint as a player (25 years; 3,313 hits in 2,826 games); highest number of stolen bases in a game (6); greatest number of years leading the American League in fielding...
...desperate for enough material to fill its broadcast hours, has finally discovered an almost inexhaustible source. The verbal reservoir: 69-year-old Edgar A. Guest, "poet of the plain people," who has been dashing off at least one verse a day for almost 50 years, mainly for his daily stint in the Detroit Free Press. In 1930, when he stopped counting them, Guest had already mass-produced more than 10,000 cheerful rhymes...