Word: virgil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Instead of accepting the scholarship offered to him by the University of Virginia, Strauss set out to sell shoes for the family firm, headed southward with volumes of Latin poetry-Virgil, Ovid, Horace-packed along with his samples. After four years in the shoe business, he took a train to Washington in 1917 and offered his services as a volunteer worker for Herbert Hoover's Belgian Relief Commission. Drawing no pay (he skimped along on his savings), Strauss worked for Hoover for 2½ years, first as a sort of office boy and then as secretary ("My jewel...
...fights of Welterweight Champion Don Jordan. He told a shady story. Last year, when Jordan was still only a challenger, Leonard got a phone call from Blinky Palermo. Blinky demanded that "we" be cut in for a piece of Jordan as a condition for getting a title fight with Virgil Akins. Leonard, together with Jordan's manager. Don Nesseth, pretended to agree. After the fight Leonard ignored Blinky Palermo's attempts to collect a share of the money. Soon he got a summons to Miami. He flew down, was brought into the presence of Frankie Carbo...
...Norfolk: Air Force Captain Leroy G. Cooper Jr., 32, Navy Lieut. Commander Walter M. Schirra Jr., 36, Navy Lieut. Malcolm S. Carpenter, 33, Navy Lieut. Commander Alan B. Shepard Jr., 35, Air Force Captain Donald K. Slayton, 35, Marine Lieut. Colonel John H. Glenn Jr., 37, Air Force Captain Virgil I. Grissom...
...tried to prevent the collapse of the city's schools was elsewhere. In 1955 Little Rock so respected its superintendent of schools and his calm desegregation plan that it named him Man of the Year. Last winter big (6 ft. 3 in., 250 Ibs.), outspoken Virgil Blossom, 52, was forced to leave town. Out of work for nearly six months (and still owed nearly $7,700 by Little Rock), Dr. Blossom has a new job: in July he will take over the semi-integrated schools of San Antonio, which sought him mainly for his talents as an organizer...
Among coming selections are cartoons by Otto Soglow, Rube Goldberg, Virgil Partch, and Charles M. Schultz, creator of "Peanuts." Three guesses who Mr. Schultz proposed to head Radcliffe. (Hint: "Peanuts" has three main characters.) David Royce will follow...