Word: r
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University's IBM machines allow 18 spaces for both last names and initials, and "this is usually more than enough," Cameron Lawrence, assistant to the Registrar, says. Not only was there no room for initials in Albrechtskirchinger's case, but it was also necessary to drop the final "r" from his 19-letter last name in order to squeeze him into the lists...
Each of the fellows is affiliated with a House, and one of them--Clark R. Mollenhoff of the Des Moines Register--took his affiliation so seriously that he went out for the Leverett House football team. Unfortunately Mollenhoff chanced to be a one-time captain of the Drake varsity football team, and after a scrimmage or two he was rule "too processional for the House league." Mollenhoff hopes he'll at least be able to play basketball...
Robert H. Fleming, Milwaukee Journal political writer; Hays Gorey, Salt Lake Tribune city editor; Max, R. Hall, Associated Press labor reporter; John L. Hulteng, Providence Journal editorial writer; Murrey Marder, Washington Post reporter; Richard J. Wallace, Jr., Memphis Press-Scimitar writer; and Melvin S. Wax, Rutland Herald assistant news editor...
...Manhattan, the Rev. Bernard R. ("The Glacier Priest") Hubbard disclosed that the U.S. Air Force recently took a "fix" of the North Pole with loran (longrange navigation) beams aimed from Alaska to intersect at the 90th meridian. Father Hubbard, who is serving as an Arctic consultant to Colonel Bernt Balchen's 10th Rescue Squadron, said that U.S. Air Force planes had circled the North Pole 300 times, taking photographs of the spot marked by the crossing electronic beams...
Police questioned them until 3:30 p.m. and told them "to get back to New Haven tonight." Telephone calls between the Yale deane and Arthur R. Hordon, Jr. '39, assistant dean of the College, settled their fate. The three were given notice of their suspension over the weekend...