Word: bulletins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the scandal, the puzzle gimmick scarcely missed a beat. A few papers, e.g., the Philadelphia Bulletin, decided they had had enough, but most puzzle contests went right on. In a front-page statement, the Milwaukee Sentinel said that since the fraud had been exposed and "the leak" stopped, there is no reason why the puzzle game should not be more popular than ever...
...months the racket worked like silk, as long as it relied on known and trusted contact men such as Lawrence A. Dyson, 32, South Philadelphia, brother of Joseph Dyson. Lawrence Dyson won $6,050 from the Philadelphia Bulletin. In the Bulletin case, the fixers overcame a last-minute effort to thwart their game: they learned that one letter in the solution had been changed, submitted 24 entries to cover all possibilities...
...career, he served as secretary to President Eliot from 1901 to 1905, Secretary to the Corporation under President Eliot and Lowell from 1905 to 1910 and under President Conant from 1934 to 1943. He was elected three times to the Board of Overseers. Greene, who founded the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and the University Gazette, was also prominent in national public service, and took part in the founding of several important social and philanthropic institutions...
Judging by the clutter of posters on entry bulletin boards or by the gauntlet of fast-taking young politicos that Freshman must run after registration, one might conclude that participation in political clubs at Harvard is widespread and vigorous. In fact, however, dues-paying membership of all groups totals less than 18 per cent of the College, and even this figure ignores double-membership and the flock of joiners whose last "activity" may be plunking down $1.50 for the privilege of belonging. In the Liberal Union, for example, only 15 of 50 members "regularly attend business meetings," and such...
Chin Up. In Laramie, Wyo., the bulletin board in front of the Zion Lutheran Church said: COME IN AND HAVE YOUR FAITH LIFTED...