Word: wilkinson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Colonel Lawrence Wilkinson New York State's new Civil Defense boss, showed that he did not believe an enemy would necessarily be tactically orthodox in planning a bombing assault: he issued a detailed plan for detecting radioactive contamination...
...Wilkinson based his warning on the proposition that an enemy cannot be depended upon to be both rule-bound and militarily efficient. An enemy might explode his bombs on the ground or, particularly in an attack on river-girdled New York City, might set them off under water deliberately sacrificing some of their blast effect. In such cases, radioactive contamination would become a massive problem. The deadly dust or spray drifting slowly downwind would not be obviously dangerous. Its radiation could not be detected by any human sense, and a man might absorb a fatal dose of it before feeling...
Last week fellow coaches, voting in the Scripps-Howard newspapers annual poll, handed Charley the laurel wreath of the profession: they voted him "Coach of the Year." With III first-place votes out of 384, he led Runners-Up Lynn Waldorf of California (50 first-place votes), Bud Wilkinson of Oklahoma (42), Bob Neyland of Tennessee (34), and 55 others...
What can a man do? Be nice to his players? That's old stuff. Only amateurs like Bud Wilkinson or Benny Oesterbaan would do that...
...Burden Bearers. Clay's was a planning and coordinating job. Wilkinson was the commission's operating head. As a first step they enlisted 109 county and city directors of civilian defense to work beyond and below the state level. The enormous task of organizing the defenses of New York City fell to Arthur W. Wailander, onetime police commissioner, now on leave from a job with a utility company. On Wallander and his staff would fall the burden of trying to pick up the shattered pieces of humanity, industry and communications while aid, directed by Clay's state...