Word: wirt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blonde, Marilyn does not have the strength for a big game, relies instead on steady retrieving to force her opponent into errors. Under the tutelage of Coach Tommy Bartlett, she has learned to keep her returns deep to prevent men from charging the net. Says Teammate Wirt Gammon Jr.: "Marilyn may not be the best in the world at putting the ball away, but she just keeps hitting it back, hitting it back...
...Richard Whitney of the Stock Exchange, more recently of Sing Sing; like Lewis Douglas, in 1952 an Eisenhower Republican; J. P. Morgan, Jr.; Raymond Moley who can now be found on the inside back page of Newsweek; an early anti-communist of the Dies-McCarthy school named William A. Wirt; plus Father Coughlin, Col. Lindbergh, Bernard Baruch, and a host of others. On the Left there were Harry Hopkins, Jesse Jones, Leon Henderson, Ben Cohen, Tommy Corcoran, Henry Wallace, and John L. Lewis. These are the people whom Schlesinger brings back from the sidelines of history into the prominence they...
...Wirt System...
Several decades ago the Gary school system was established by William A. Wirt, who instituted a "work-study-play" program designed for mill workers' children. According to Roser, the Wirt System "was partially an attempt to meet the needs of a rapidly expanding population, with minimum building facilities, and partially a revolt against the typical 'Latin School' type of upper class education." The inclusion of extracurricular activities during the school day for credit was an integral feature of the system...
...Accept the Challenge." Landing in Jackson, Kennedy read the local papers−and in them, a challenge from Mississippi Republican State Chairman Wirt Yerger Jr. for him to state his views on integration and segregation. While he kept an overflow reception crowd waiting in the Roof Room of the Heidelberg Hotel, Jack Kennedy hid out in his room, lolling in a warm bath while he thought through a revised version of his speech...