Word: williams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Charles D. Leamy '60 won the William Paine LaCroix Award for sportsmanship, loyalty, and team spirit, H. Holton Wood '31 announced at the banquet...
When police found William Flanagan in a Philadelphia gutter, he was barely conscious and obviously suffering from long exposure to the frosty night air. At Hahnemann Hospital, Intern Edward Brunner was still examining Flanagan, 43, a 6-ft.-3-in. laborer, when the patient's heart stopped. Dr. Brunner slit open Flanagan's chest, and began massaging his heart. (It was the first time that Dr. Brunner. 30, had had to open a chest.) Surgeon Frank Sterba put a tube down the patient's windpipe, hooked it to a mechanical ventilator to take care of his breathing...
...Poet Vachel Lindsay was out of date; chanting about the heartland seemed naive to readers caught by the puzzles of The Waste Land. In the age of Eliot. Lindsay was remembered chiefly as the eccentric and faintly embarrassing author of two throbbing poems, the boomlay-booming Congo and General William Booth Enters into Heaven. Yet 15 years earlier, few had doubted that he was a genius. Author Eleanor Ruggles (Prince of Players: Edwin Booth) avoids outright judgment, but the sum of her sympathetic, somewhat sentimental biography seems correct: Lindsay was less than a major poet, but considerably more than...
...Treatment Man, by William Wiegand. A skillfully written novel about a prison riot that is also a prickly parable of power and evil...
...Mansion, by William Faulkner. The final installment of a wild, grim-comic trilogy (its predecessors: The Hamlet, The Town), in which Flem, the worst of the Snopeses, gets his due in death...