Word: wilsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seriously. Manhattan may have taller skyscrapers and Washington more skillful politicos, but in any kind of fair fight-say of nine men on a ball field-Brooklyn expects to hold its own. The great moments in Brooklyn's rowdy baseball tradition have usually been accidental: the time Hack Wilson was hit on the head with a fly ball while sassing the bleachers; the time three Dodgers slid into the same base at the same time; the day Babe Herman almost started a fire because he forgot to douse his cigar before putting it in his pocket. Under Durocher, such...
Thomas J. Wilson will assume directorship of the University Press beginning July 1, the University announced last night. He succeeds Roger Scaife '97, present director and chairman of the Press' Board of Syndics...
...Wilson's appointment follows a year as director of the University of North Carolina press, preceded by four years' service aboard the carrier Enterprise and in the Bureau of Aeronautics in Washington...
Upon graduation from the University of North Carolina in 1921, Wilson spent three years at Oxford University as a Rhodes scholar, receiving his Ph.D. in 1927. After returning to this country, he taught Romance languages for two years at North Carolina, followed by 13 years of editorial work with Henry Hall and Company, and Reynal and Hitchcock...
...Eagle Has Two Heads (translated from the French of Jean Cocteau by Ronald Duncan; produced by John C. Wilson) and, what's more remarkable, flies backwards. Famed French Avant-Gardist Cocteau's "romantic melodrama" is outdated purple-&-plush palace theatrics, which starts off with a poet-revolutionist plunging through a window into the royal boudoir, and winds up with a dying queen toppling headlong down a vast flight of stairs...