Word: whizzer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Byron ("Whizzer") White, All-America halfback, Rhodes scholar and Navy hero, who forsook professional football's enticements ($15,000 a season) to study law, got the job most coveted by fledgling barristers. The job: clerk to Fred M. Vinson, Chief Justice...
...change was reflected in the groom's expression. Marriage no longer seemed like one more hurried step in a process calculated to get him out to an island where the Japs could blow his head off. Occasionally a groom still got the spotlight-as last week when Byron ("Whizzer") White, Colorado's All-America Rhodes Scholar and naval hero, married pretty Miss Marion Stearns at Boulder (see MILESTONES). But mostly husbands-to-be could let their knees knock in peace...
Married. Byron Raymond ("Whizzer") White, 28, brainy onetime Colorado halfback (All-America 1937) and Rhodes scholar, lately a PT-boat skipper, now a law student at Yale; and Marion Stearns, 24, ex-WAVE daughter of University of Colorado President Robert L. Stearns; in Boulder, Colo...
...Also signed up with the Lions this year: Byron ("Whizzer") White, returning to football after a year at Yale. His salary will be considerably less than the $15,000 he got for playing eleven professional games with the Pittsburgh Pirates two years ago, before going to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar...
...Yale fifteen is strong in weight and experience this season with the team's average weight reported around 200 pounds. Whizzer White, much valued pro football star, who now is attending Yale Law School, is to play for the Elis in this afternoon's tilt...