Word: chester
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...evening duet by Chester Robert Huntley (New York) and David McClure Brinkley (Washington) presents the news with unusual (for TV) restraint: its stars are both unexcitable men who seldom pontificate but project an air of unassuming authority and easy informality. "I'm a newsman using TV as my special medium," says Chet Huntley. The key to their success is the fact that they are pros (both have spent most of their working lives as newsmen of the air, with early stints on newspapers) dedicated to the principle that news is not show business...
...again this afternoon. Harvard Squad PROBABLE STARTING LINE-UP NO. NAME POSITION 80 CAPPIELLO, DAVID L. E 84 KEOHANE, HAROLD J. E 71 NELSON, K. ERIC T 70 PILLSBURY, ROBERT L. T 60 LENZNER, TERRY F. G 68 WEIDLER, JERRY L. G 51 ELIADES, PETER G. C 40 BOULRIS, CHESTER J. B 12 CULLEN, ALBERT F., JR. B 44 HAUGHIE, GLENN E. B 24 RAVENEL, CHARLES D. B 10 Damis, John J. B 11 Williams, Roy. B 14 Repsher, Lawrence H. B 15 Hunter, Robert L., Jr. B 20 Watts, H. Grady, Jr. B 21 Boone, Thomas...
...residential compound where the eight Americans lived in Bien Hoa, Master Sergeant Chester Ovnand finished a letter to his wife in Copperas Cove, Texas and dropped it in the mess-hall mailbox. Major Dale Buis of Imperial Beach, Calif, had arrived in Bien Hoa only two days before and was showing his new friends pictures of his three young sons. Two of the officers drifted off to play tennis; the other six men decided to watch a Jeanne Crain movie, The Tattered Dress, on their home projector in the grey stucco mess hall. While they were absorbed in the first...
...moved fast. Determined to have her husband committed again, she called Dr. Chester Williams, the coroner* of East Baton Rouge Parish (i.e., county), arranged for Williams to get commitment papers ready, then sped up the 80-mile, Huey-built Air Line Highway to Baton Rouge to sign them. While she was on the way, Coroner Williams and Parish Sheriff Bryan Clemmons ordered two detectives onto the highway at the parish line to wait for Earl Long, who would surely soon be racing for Baton Rouge to reclaim his power...
...Manhattan job. Fires had broken out in a freight engine in New Rochelle, N.Y., and on tracks at Manhattan's 125th Street station. Going home that night the commuter glanced out the window, discovered that ties on the trestle his train was just crossing at Port Chester, N.Y. were on fire ("Gee," said a conductor, "Look at the fire"). Returning to work early next morning, the commuter was more than an hour late. Reason: another mechanical breakdown on the New Haven...