Word: w
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Busybodies' World. In San Diego, Alex W. Goodreau, stoutly insisting that he was a "good driver" and that those who disagreed were "a bunch of busybodies," was nevertheless arrested for speeding in his wheel chair...
...United States Lines' S.S. America docked in New York with a sizzling labor dispute aboard, company officials prepared for the worst. The union's delegate, a wiry, intense ship's electrician named Walter Avellar, had served an ultimatum: either the company fired Chief Crew Steward W. S. McDonald and reinstated two seamen, or the ship would not sail. Roared grim-jawed, grim-tempered Commodore Harry Manning: "They can tie this ship up until hell freezes over, as far as I am concerned. The time has come to find out who runs the ship, the delegate-commissar...
...bureau, delighted with the beginning, offered the show to any other television station or network that wanted it. "It's just our sort of medium," said Chief Forecaster Francis W. Reichelderfer. "Our problem has always been to paint the weather picture in words, and . . . they don't convey enough...
Probable Varsity pointmen: S. Felton, R. Forsyth--35-pound weight; G. Tootell--shot; A. Lockett, W. Lawrence--pole vault; J. Spivak--60-yard dash; F. Gurley--1000; A. Ruby, D. Hamblait. H. Thayer, A. Edelman--one mile relay...
...Abolish the House Un-American Activities Committee," replied Percy W. Bridgman '04, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, in a violent answer yesterday to the committee's accusation that Edward U. Condon, head of the Government Bureau of Standards, is "one of the weakest links in our atomic security...