Word: wilbert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...youth. Wilt shot up to his spectacular height between the ages of 13 and 16, but he always tried to trim himself down to the rest of the boys by insisting he was only 6 ft. n in. tall. Now he can even poke fun at his "little brother" Wilbert, who is only 6 ft. 5 in. "Nothing to him," says Wilt. When a stranger accosts him and says, "Wilt, can I ask you a question?", The Stilt proudly interrupts. "That's right," he says. "Over seven feet." His opponents insist he is three feet taller than that...
Atomized Bums. Last week civic planners got an urgent plea to think about the bums before the city beautiful. It came from Wilbert L. Hindman, chairman of the Los Angeles Welfare Planning Council's Committee on Skid Row, a professor of business administration at the University of Southern California and member of the National Committee on the Homeless and Institutional Alcoholic. "Skid Row," said he, "is a very healthy institution. It has sprung up spontaneously to meet the demands of the homeless ones-the men who have resigned from society. It is not something that was dreamed...
...Somebody Help Me!" By 1912, gags and all, Stengel had made it to the majors. He stayed on as a cocky, combative outfielder for Uncle Wilbert Robinson's Dodgers. He was still overburdened with brash Middle Western corn. He carried his home-town manners around with him, and his teammates quickly tagged him "K.C." The nickname stuck...
...Farm (Sun., 5 p.m., NBCTV) is an hour-long pseudo documentary that aims at illustrating to the city viewer the grandeurs of bucolic life. The first program was just sow-sow. It originated mostly "live" from the Wilbert Landmeier farm near Cloverdale, Ill., with Country Singer Eddy Arnold on hand to greet viewers and help show the folks around the place. The cameras ranged nearly everywhere: to the dairy barn to watch the milking; to the front yard, for a talk with Mother Landmeier and her healthy youngsters; to the barnyard, where Weatherman Clint Youle spoke of the crops...
...increased downward since Bestor's school days, we are now turning out of the public schools more children who are actually better trained in subject matter . . . We must not return to the past when the special function of education was to cater to the needs of the few . . . WILBERT J. MUELLER Lawrence, Kans...