Word: wilkinson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...calls. Veteran Newsman Brennan (TIME, Sept 22, 1952) managed to telephone out the story of his jailing only by sprinkling his copy with superlatives ("They served us a wonderful breakfast. The bread was a delicious grey color"). There was one bloodstained breach in Batista's hospitality. Reporter Neal Wilkinson was sipping coffee across from the presidential palace when police caught up with a group of teen-age rebels who stopped a few feet from Wilkinson. One cop turned on Wilkinson and, disregarding his cries of "Americano," clubbed him about the face and body, pursuing him until he reached...
...That's one question I can answer unequivocally," said sad, 41-year-old Coach Wilkinson promptly...
...four straight, but in the last two weeks they had been beaten twice. For days the campus at South Bend had echoed with pep rallies; the underdog Irish knew that this was the one to win. All through three quarters the hopped-up Irish line hammered at Coach Bud Wilkinson's well-drilled Sooners. For all their consummate fakery, none of Oklahoma's quarterbacks could shake loose on their famed run-pass option play. The lean, long-muscled Oklahomans who had never played on a losing team were hard put to hold the game to a scoreless...
...would probably be a good thing for the team to lose, said University of Oklahoma President George Cross. "Overemphasis on the winning part of the game will ultimately destroy it." But Oklahoma Coach Bud Wilkinson and his Sooners did not seem to be listening. They whipped Missouri, 39-14, to lengthen football's longest current winning streak (47 games) and earned a trip to the Orange Bowl...
...Union Committee has chosen its officers and Student Council representatives. Eugene Langevin of Stoughton Hall and Ferndale, Mich., has been chosen chairman, J. Thomas Rosche of Massachusetts Hall and Omaha, Neb., vice-chairman and treasurer, and Robert W. Wilkinson, Jr. of Grays Hall and Portland, Ore., secretary. Lewis B. Oliver, Jr., Robert E. Weil, and Hastings Wyman, Jr. are the new Council representatives...