Word: bartram
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Showing up in Atlantic City, N.J. to talk before an Israel Bond rally, Novelist Leon Uris (Exodus, Battle Cry), 35, recalled his record at Philadelphia's Bartram High School, said he had flunked English three times and was about to register flunk No. 4 when he enlisted in the Marine Corps. To Uris, who recently signed a contract with Columbia Pictures for four sight-unseen novels, the matter was merely academic, but "it's a good thing English has nothing to do with writing...
Five years ago Manhattan's Rupert T. Zickl, 59, went into Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corp. as a management consultant to help get its business squared away. Consultant Zickl, now a vice president of Bartram Bros. Corp., a director of V-C and owner of 17,500 shares of common stock, soon decided what was wrong with the $33 million fertilizer and chemical company. It was the management. Last week, by a vote of almost 2 to 1 at a special meeting in Richmond, Va., Zickl's independent stockholders' group ousted President Joseph A. Howell and five other...
William Bentinck-Smith, assistant to the President, spends his spare time honorably curating Type Specimens and Letter Designs. Edwin B. Bartram, long a breeder of bryophytes, presently holds the position of Honorary Curator of Mosses in the Farlow Herbarium...
...third period, after Tommy Thompson intercepted O'Connor's pass at midfiled, Calhoun started a drive which culminated when Bartram piled over center from one yard out for the second score. Zych converted once again...
Calhoun scored in the second and third periods, with the first marker being set up by a blocked punt. End Bill McCormick recovered O'Connor's attempted kick on the nine-yard line and on the next play, fullback Sandy Bartram went nine yards through tackle for the score John Zych kicked the extra point...