Word: cochrane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Barefoot Girl. The story of Candidate Jacqueline Cochran is beyond the rosiest dreams of Horatio Alger. She does not know who her parents were, or where she was born an estimated 47 years ago. Her childhood was spent in a succession of Florida and Georgia cracker shanties, in dreary sawmill towns at the dead ends of Tobacco Road. Her dresses were flour sacks, and she got her first shoes when she was eight. Starvation was always lurking outside the door, and Jackie ate mostly what she could steal or scrounge. She learned to read from the signs on railroad boxcars...
From such a bleak beginning, Jackie Cochran became a beautician, a nurse, a good airplane pilot, and the wife of Multimillionaire Floyd Odium. After her marriage, Jackie's career (or careers) soared upward like a jet plane. As the head of her own nationally known cosmetics firm, she is a keen and successful business woman. As the U.S.'s No. 1 aviatress, she has won scores of awards, set dozens of records, was the first woman to break through the sound barrier. During World War II she headed the women pilots' ferrying service, the WASPs...
Crimson captain Jim Jorgenson should take care of the next event, the 220. Soph- omore Tom Cochran will seek to win permanently the position of Jorgensen's running mate in this event...
Behind them are Gus Johnson, an experienced senior; juniors Rog Clifton and Stu Ogden; and sophomores Ron Mischner and Tom Cochran...
There were at least 200 athletes in the Union last night--some of them gray-haired crew men from the years of the First War, and others such recent football figures as John Culver, Bob Cochran, and Jerry Marsh. It was the first annual dinner of the Harvard Varsity Club, preceded by cocktails at six in the Club House next door...