Word: york
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York's Judge Learned Hand, 87, completing his soth year on the federal bench. Traveling to Manhattan for the warm occasion were Chief Justice Earl Warren, U.S. Attorney General William Rogers, and a host of the nation's leading lawyers. Attorney General Rogers read a letter to Hand from the President of the U.S.: "You have stood for that excellence and temperament essential to the achievement of equal justice under law." Learned Hand found his reply in a Shakespearean sonnet to Time: "This I do vow, and this shall ever be;/I will be true, despite thy scythe...
...fighter-bomber missions in the Pacific, 100 missions, three MIGs downed in Korea), carries the weightiest decorations (five Distinguished Flying Crosses, 19 Air Medals), is the most famed of the lot (he won headlines in 1957 as the first man to fly supersonically from Los Angeles to New York-piloting a Chance Vought F8U in 3 hr., 23 min.-later won $25,000 on TV's Name That Tune), probably has the most space savvy (McDonnell Aircraft consulted him in blueprinting Project Mercury's space capsule). He is also the champion humorist of the fast-cracking group, says...
Also bolstering New York will be inside center John Fitzsimmons and wing Mike Kornfield. Kornfield, now at N.Y.U. Medical School, played for three years on the Crimson rugby team as an undergraduate...
After splitting two games on a Bermuda trip this spring, New York blanked the Montreal Barbaraians 6 to 0, and then crushed Wesleyan, 24 to 0. Crimson Club present Bill Morse feels that "besides Princeton and Dartmouth, New York will be our strongest opponent...
...game is scheduled for 2 p.m., and will be followed by contests between M.I.T. and Montreal (Westmount) and the second teams of Harvard and New York...