Word: weller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ship's bell outside Cunningham's Oyster Bar on Mayfair's Curzon Street clanged brassily last week for the opening of the oyster season, but it rang for few Britons. In the days of Charles Dickens oysters cost a penny a dozen and Sam Weller could comment truthfully on the "wery remarkable circumstance,' sir, that poverty and oysters always seem to go together." Today only the rich can afford oysters. The best Colchesters cost 16s. ($3.20) a dozen, Whitstable natives IDS. to 125. ($2 to $2.40), imported oysters from Holland and Brittany...
...College--where do these "pros" fit into a student setup? George Weller '29, a Fellow last year, played 60 minutes at center for Adams House in every intramural football game. Nathan Caldwell of the Nashville Tennessean took part in forums here, lectured twice, and spoke at the Dunster House dinner on "The History of the South" during his stay...
George A. Weller '29, foreign correspondent for the Chicago Daily News and a departing Nieman Fellow, acted as Toastmaster. He was introduced by R. Scot Leavitt '46, President during the Crime's actual anniversary year...
Over 200 past and present editors are expected at 14 Plympton Street throughout the afternoon for "Puncheon." At 7 o'clock the company will shift to the dinning hall of Adams House for the banquet, at which George A. Weller '29 will serve as toastmaster...
...Weller, a Nieman Fellow during the past year, has covered the globe as foreign correspondent for the Chicago Daily News and other publications since his tenure as CRIMSON editorial chairman in 1929. In 1943 he won the Pulitzer Prize for his story of an appendectomy performed under enemy waters by an American submarine doctor...