Word: estabrooks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What I have to say today," said the guest speaker, Robert H. Estabrook, 42, editorial page director of the Washington Post and Times Herald, "won't be quite so harmonious as the tunes from the massed Michigan bands." Thus forewarned, the assembled journalism students at the University of Michigan sat back to listen to some exceptionally frank criticism of the U.S. daily press...
...newspapers that smolder indignantly over the transgressions of others, said Estabrook, might well take a good look at their own: "Recently, the press became very exercised about morality when Charles Van Doren put on his show of contrition. But our indignation would be better founded, and more credible, if we also managed to muster a few olfactory shudders about the garbage in our own backyard. Better yet, we might even try to clean...
...Some of Estabrook's shudder makers...
...captain Joe Noble were the mainstays of the squad and both will graduate in June, leaving huge gaps to fill for next season. Among the other regulars or semi-regulars, Dave Skeels, King Holmes and Rick Sullivan are also seniors, leaving Carl Kludt (130), John Watkins (137), Nick Estabrook (147) and heavy-weights Ted Robbins and Bob wirke as the experienced nucleus of next year's squad...
...well set. No one is going to beat out Watkins, who was 6-4-1 this year, at 137, but either Nate Goodhue or George Doub may win 130 from Kludt, and freshman Bill Smith or sophomore Andy Petite--who didn't wrestle this year--could take 137 from Estabrook...