Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Sidney Olcott, 76, pioneer movie director (From the Manger to the Cross), who helped guide film Newcomers Mary Pickford, Gloria Swanson and Rudolph Valentino; in Hollywood...
Private Noel Moncaster, of the Royal Pioneer Corps stationed at Luneburg, had already had a drink or two too many when he spotted a seductive fraulein on a street corner. She invited him to a party and Noel accepted. That was in May 1947. Last week, lighter by 35 Ibs. and a good deal sadder & wiser, Private Moncaster reported back to British regimental headquarters in Berlin, to explain his long absence; the "party" had lasted two years and seven months...
...scholarships were granted under the will of Cecil John Rhodes, the late British statesman and pioneer to "on-course the . . qualities of distinction...
Veteran Movie Director Cecil B. DeMille, hailed as the film "pioneer of the year" at the tenth anniversary dinner in Manhattan of the Motion Picture Pioneers, told a tall tale of some painstaking work on his forthcoming Samson and Delilah. For ten years, he said, he followed molting peacocks around his 10,000-acre California ranch, collecting the 1,900 feathers which embellish one of the costumes worn in the film by Delilah (Hedy Lamorr...
After 90 years, Whitman College in Walla Walla, Wash. had ample reason to be proud of itself. Named for Marcus Whitman, the missionary pioneer of Oregon Territory days, it had a fine old campus of broad lawns and red brick buildings, a small but earnest student body (770), high scholastic standing and a sprinkling of noted alumni (among them: U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas). Whitman took all that for granted. What it was after last week was a football team that could win games in its own league...