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Stargel's persuasive brother, Willard, a pretty fair football player, himself, once again shares top honors for influencing Bob this time in bringing him to Harvard. Willard, after a fine career at end for Walnut Hills, decided to go to the local college, the University of Cincinnati. He made the U. of C. team easily, but rode the bench several times a season when the Bearcats would play Southern schools. Because Southern schools insisted that he could not play, and Cincinnati acquiesced. Willard often wondered whether he had made the right college choice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stargel, O'Neil . . . From Pier, Pawnshop | 11/10/1951 | See Source »

...when he was finishing up high school, was also U. of C. bound, but there Willard stepped in and told his brother to look around some more. Bod did and when he chanced to hear former football coach Art Valpey speak, he began to think in terms of New England...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stargel, O'Neil . . . From Pier, Pawnshop | 11/10/1951 | See Source »

President Willard D. Voit thinks his football is better than a leather one, in every way. On wet days, it won't soak up water, is as easy to kick, pass and catch wet as dry. It is also slightly cheaper than the leather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Oct. 22, 1951 | 10/22/1951 | See Source »

...apart, leaving other members of GATT with the feeling that U.S. trade policy is insincere and undependable. Already three countries, Denmark, Holland, and Canada have accused the United States at the recent GATT conference in Geneva of "impairing and nullifying" the agreement, and all that Undersecretary of State Willard Thorpe could do at the time was admit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Protection Racket | 10/1/1951 | See Source »

While the infant lotuses flourished in their Washington greenhouse, another batch of the seeds was sent to Dr. Willard F. Libby of the University of Chicago. Libby decided to check their age by measuring their content of radioactive carbon 14.-In the current issue of Science Dr. Libby reported his findings: his tests on 19 of the lotus seeds had proved that they are 1,000 years old, give or take a couple of centuries. This is nothing like 50,000 years, but it makes the seeds the oldest of any species that have yet been known to sprout after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Long-Lived Lotus | 10/1/1951 | See Source »

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