Word: takings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...start, bush-haired Harold Walter Stoke made himself quite clear. He woulri leave the presidency of the middle-sized University of New Hampshire (enrollment: 3,500) and take over big Louisiana State (enrollment: 10,000) on one condition: that he have full authority to run L.S.U. "without political or other interference." For the university which had been one of Huey Long's pet projects ("[I'm] the Chief Thief for L.S.U.!"), it was a tall order. But it was just what the L.S.U. Board of Supervisors had in mind. For months during 1947, the 14 supervisors, most...
...allow an ice show in the coliseum or a professional football game in the L.S.U. stadium. He frowned on the university's traditional brand of student election campaigns, with their bathing beauties, free shoeshines, jazz bands, fire engines and acrobats. "I hope I am the last person to take the joy out of going to college," he told his students, "but just what sort of a university do you want...
Deans v. Consensus. But in two years, even Stoke was not able to reform everybody. Some deans still take a dim view of his new "administration by consensus," call it "administration by passing the buck." Governor Long backed a constitutional amendment last November to bring the L.S.U. Board of Supervisors under his thumb. The amendment lost, but Louisiana recently began to hear, and read in newspaper columns, that the Supervisors themselves were set to bounce Harold Stoke. Then, went the story, L.S.U. might get a Louisiana man again as its president...
Most raucous needier was a zoot-suited, jobless young Puerto Rican named Fred Boysen, who had somehow wangled a $2.50 box seat. Boysen's view, as he expressed it later, is that "the fun of baseball" is kibitzing; a big-league manager should be able to take it. He dished it out. He spat in Durocher's direction and said: "Here, Leo, this is for you." As five hapless Giant pitchers were mauled, he cried at the Giant boss: "Why don't you go in and pitch yourself, you monkey?" Leo also said he heard Fan Boysen...
Change of Pace. Although the first newspaper pitches were a little wild, Happy Chandler decided to take a swing. Without waiting for an official report, he announced that Durocher was suspended "indefinitely," ordered him to Cincinnati for a hearing this week. Durocher got the news on a Boston-bound train, turned the team over to Frankie Frisch and hopped a plane back to New York...