Word: williams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tall, 23-year-old William L. Cox is a cocky, capable truckman and he drives a big rig-a tractor and a double-tank trailer. Some of his admiring fellow truckers would say that sharp-eyed Billy could roll his rig through an oven door without jarring the roast...
...Philadelphia's Judge Curtis Bok, himself an author (Backbone of the Herring), ruled thoughtfully that nine novels (including works by James T. Farrell, Erskine Caldwell, William Faulkner) seized in vice-squad raids were not obscene. Said the court: "I should prefer that my own three daughters meet the facts of life and the literature of the world in my library than behind a neighbor's barn, for I can face the adversary there directly...
Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, announced yesterday that the ten finalists in the Boylston Speaking Contest are: J. David Baumann '51, William C. Becker '51, Justin S. Colin '45, R. Albert Feldman '51, Robert L. Fischelis '49, James B. Hompe '50, David S. Nicholl '45, John J. Trudon III '51, Nicholas Verven '51, and David F. Wheeler...
...Capp, of Schmoo and L'il Abner fame, Bill Mauldin, Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist, Irving T. McDonald, WEEI news analyst, and William E. Mullins, politics editor of the Boston Herald will take the Forum platform at 8 p.m. to express their personal views on the matter of the almighty dollar's effect on the nation's press and radio...
Addressing himself to the "colonial rabble before me in this far-flung corner of the earth," be-whiskered George William Pattison, a veteran of the British Royal Dragoons, said that sticking with Great Britain would have given Louisiana to the U.S. for nothing, averted the Civil War, the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and remarked that if there had been no revolution "you would be able to make a decent...