Word: wilbert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time he was twelve, John Wilbert Glaefke was miserably self-conscious about his looks. Playmates, with childish cruelty, called him "big lips" and "bulldog." In junior high, a teacher asked him in front of the class if he had any Negro blood. When he reached the age of wanting dates, the girls looked at him with frank distaste or fear and refused...
FRESHMAN CROSS COUNTRY--Major Track Numerals--Captain Joseph Leeming, Alfred Redfield; Minor Track Numerals--Arden L. Albee, William W. Baker, Jr., Peter R. Goethals, Wilbert G. Kleinhen, Alfred F. Latimer, 2nd; Ralph E. Lindstrom, Jerome E. Miller, George F. Skinner, and Manager Christopher F. Lindsey...
...political experience but great ambition, seemed a cinch to be the Democratic nominee for governor of Connecticut. But last week he was outfoxed by the pros. In a wide-open state convention, after the pros had maneuvered a first-ballot deadlock, they threw all their strength to Lieut. Governor Wilbert Snow, 62-year-old poet and former Wesleyan University professor of English. Rushing to make the nomination unanimous, Chester said: "I've always said I'd never sulk in my tent...
...acceptable organization candidate for governor was already available. Lieut. Governor Wilbert Snow, poet and college professor, could be depended upon to distribute party patronage properly in the event of a Democratic victory in November. The pros thought Newcomer Bowles might learn the ropes more safely as a Senator under the watchful eye of Connecticut's Democratic leader and senior Senator in Washington-ambitious, young (42) Brien McMahon...
...Wilbert Winkle, having demonstrated budding heroism by breaking out of his bank cage and starting a fix-it shop in his garage, can be counted on by experienced movie-goers to bloom properly when transplanted from Benton, Calif, to the South Pacific. He does, by wiping out a machine-gun nest with a bulldozer, and comes home a hero even to his wife. Mr. Winkle has its moving moments, but the total effect is about as convincing as if professional tough guy Edward G. Robinson were to play the part of the mild little bank clerk-which he does...