Word: william
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Home Team Batter. In Appleton, Wis., sentenced to two years' probation for beating his wife, William Van Linn told the court: "My wife wouldn't bake me a cake, and bakery cakes aren't as good as homemade ones...
Lightning slashed the white peaks of the boiling thunderclouds below as a pair of silver-and-orange F8U Crusader jet fighters streaked smoothly down the Carolina coast on the return leg of a high-altitude flight to Boston. Lieut. Colonel William Henry Rankin, U.S.M.C., sitting under the curved glass canopy of the lead jet, took his two-plane flight over an angry anvil of cloud, sat back casually as his eye ran across the instrument panel. Altitude: 47,000 feet. True air speed: 500 knots. It was a crisp, sunlit flight, and the only problem in sight was to bore...
Tepee is the brainchild of young (33) Physicist William John Thaler (pronounced Thayler) of the Office of Naval Research. Thaler's primary field is nuclear weapons effects. But two years ago, he had a sudden notion that certain characteristics of the behavior of radio waves might be the key to a simple and reliable long-range detection system. Since both the ionosphere and the surface of the earth will deflect radio signals, a transmitter can angle its beam upward and the broad waves will carom back and forth between ground and sky as they proceed to circle the earth...
Born in Baltimore, William John Thaler majored in physics (but also won prizes in theology and philosophy) at Loyola College, took .his doctorate at Washington's Catholic University of America, where he specialized in ultrasonics. A solid, 6-ft. 190-pounder and father of four. Thaler is a topnotch tennis player, has several times won the state doubles championship. Thaler took his sudden fame calmly. Reporters looking for him at his suburban home in Silver Spring, Md. found he had ducked out to buy his six-year-old son a small green turtle as a replacement...
...house t' make it home/A heap o' sun an' shadder, an' ye sometimes have to roam") alone went through 35 printings, sold more than 1,000,000 copies. At his peak, Guest earned $128,000 a year. He had many impressive friends; Henry Ford and William Lyon Phelps were among his greatest admirers. He owned two handsome homes-a vast, colonnaded winter residence in Detroit, a summer home in fashionable Pointe aux Barques...