Word: stacks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yale's great backstroker, Allen Stack, and Joe Verduer, world-champion butterfly specialist, from LaSalle, hooked up in the 300-yard medley relay at the Blockhouse last night and the result brought a crowd of 1500 to their feet roaring, as the first day of the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming Championships ended...
...Allen Stack, Yale backstroker who set a new intercollegiate record last weekend, will be the co-star of the show along with Verdeur, while Don DeForrest, all-around ace from Penn in three events this winter, should furnish real competition for the topnotchers...
...haughty little magazines and the anthologists never knew him, and would have ignored him if they had. But all their Rapunzel-haired poets together never spoke to an audience the size of his. And when he died last .week, the New York Times obit said of Philip Stack: "He was rated the leader in his art." It was a lowly art: he was the nameless mass-producer of saccharine sentiments on millions of greeting cards. For Walter Winchell's millions of readers he penned disillusioned doggerel under the pseudonym "Don Wahn." But his real name was familiar...
...Philip Stack was a gas-company clerk when he sent his first shy offerings to Winchell. Winchell all but scared Stack away by giving him a byline. After that Stack was billed as the Melancholy Don, Kid Kazanova, Don Wahn, or Donna Wahnna -all trademarks of a kind of heartburn that became a regular Winchell symptom. Winchell never got a bill from him, never paid him and never met him, but the verses got Stack his greeting-card...
...Brazilian-born Dr. C.M.G. Lattes, 23, put a thin carbon target in a beam of alpha particles (helium nuclei) in the cyclotron chamber. Figuring that the alpha particles had enough power (380 million electron volts) to knock mesons out of the carbon atoms, Gardner & Lattes put a stack of special photographic plates at the spot where the mesons should hit. Then they turned on the cyclotron. When they developed the plates, they found the characteristic wavy tracks of negative mesons. Some of them ended in "stars," the atomic X-marking-the-spot where a meson has entered the nucleus...