Word: delta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...members of the special committee which made the survey of the Foundation have been appointed to the advisory committee. They are: Geoffrey Parsons, chief editorial writer of the New York Herald Tribune; Sevellon Brown, publisher of the Providence (Rhode Island) Journal; Canham; Hodding Cartor, publisher of the Delta Democrat-Times (Greenville, Mississippi); Marquis W. Childs, Washington columnist; Mark Ethridge, publisher of the Louisville (Kentucky) Courier-Journal; Phillip L. Graham, publisher of the Washington Post; Palmer Hoyt, publisher of the Denver Post; Benjamin M. McKelway, editor of the Washington Star; Robert McLean, publisher of the Philadelphia Bulletin; Reston; and Paul Smith...
...There was an ordinary college party going on in the Delta, Kappa Epsilon House," Tesreau said, "and there's no doubt at all that there was drinking going on. Between 8 and 12 of the Dekes, (including all six men suspended last night) left their own party sometime between 9 and 10 p.m. and continued their drinking at the Tri-Kappa House...
...height of the celebration, 19-year-old Hale T. Gehl, a sophomore from Chicago, and a member of Theta Delta Chi, had a bad fall. While visiting at the Delta Phi house, he lost his balance on the stairs and plunged to the bottom. Two days later he died of a brain hemorrhage...
...airplanes of late World War II. Behind these in the development series stand strange-looking craft like the Northrop Flying Wing and the six-jet Boeing B-47, neither yet ready for service. Even farther away from military use are odder airplanes, such as the model 7002 Consolidated-Vultee Delta wing, which looks like a big bomber's tail with the rest of the bomber missing (see cut). So far, the Delta wing has had only its test flights...
...Atlanta Constitution found a way last week to make high-priced newsprint carry both editorial matter and advertising in the same space. The paper first printed a one-color ad for Delta Air Lines, then printed the financial page over it (see cut). Adman B. D. Adams, who thought it up for his airline client and ran the ad in four Southern papers, said graciously that any newspaper could use his idea...