Word: tad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Thomas Albert Dwight ("Tad") Jones, 70, famed Yale quarterback (1905-07), head football coach (1920-27) with a record of 49 wins, 14 losses, four ties; of cancer; in Hamden, Conn...
...Reynal has returned to his place at outside centre after a year's leave of absence, where he will play beside Pete Palmer of last spring's team. Competition for the other three-quarter spot is keen between sophomores Bob Strassler and Jay Greenman, both new to rugby, and Tad White, also back from a leave of absence...
...TAD FELTMAN...
...Shadow. Historians disagree whether the boy in question was Lincoln's eldest son Bob or his youngest, Tad, but all four Lincoln sons had received a private emancipation proclamation from the man they called "Pa." His attitude was: "Let the children have a good time." Biographer Randall (Mary Lincoln), widow of the late Lincoln scholar J. G. Randall, brings a mother-hen style to her bundle of anecdotes that will wholly please only devoted parents and memorabilia collectors, but the book does light up Lincoln as father, and what it means to grow up in the shadow...
Pardon for Jack. On the inaugural train to Washington, it was just like Tad to bait dignitaries with the query "Do you want to see Old Abe?" and then gleefully point out some total stranger. To Tad and Willie, the Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer of the Lincoln family, the White House was a huge rumpus room. They found the central bell system and sent the White House staff scurrying up and down stairs in a dither over the President's safety. The "dear codgers" built a sled in the attic out of an old chair, with a copy...