Word: geniality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...results of nine seasons can be taken as any indication, Haines is bound to turn out a strong varsity 150-pound crew this spring. The genial Englishman has consistently built championship lightweight crews, and has lost but one race--to Princeton last year--in the past three seasons...
...Willard C. Rappleye, dean of the faculty of medicine, able and genial boss of Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons for the past 18 years, to become vice president in charge of medical affairs. ¶ Paul H. Davis, general secretary of Stanford University, until he took the same title at Columbia in 1946. As vice president in charge of development, he will be the university's top planner and coordinator of new educational projects...
...staff that includes professors John M. Gaus, Howard Mumford Jones, Samuel E. Morrison, Benjamin F. Wright, Bart J. Bok, Lynn H. Loomis, and john D. Wild, and a genial Housemaster named Leigh Hoadley...
Died. John Sanburn Phillips, 87, genial, Iowa-born editor credited with developing more prominent writers than any other editor of his generation; after long illness; in Goshen, N.Y. A partner (with Samuel S. McClure) in one of the first U.S. newspaper syndicates (1886), Phillips hired Robert Louis Stevenson and Mark Twain * among his first contributors, later helped publish and manage McClure's Magazine, founded the American Magazine...
Butch Jordan has not had it so easy, Injuries and graduation have forced the genial mentor to revamp his lineup until only three men are wrestling in their regular slots. Buddy King, who competed at 145 in the MIT and Wesleyan bouts, returns after sitting out the Columbia match; Claflin makes his second start at 175 and his home debut; and Howie Houston, a potential national champ, holds down the heavyweight chores...