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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...bought a string of newspapers, one of which, the Lancaster (Ohio) Eagle-Gazette, he still owns. Today he also has minor interests in an advertising firm, the Churngold (margarine) Corp., American Thermos Bottle, Procter & Gamble, the Reds and the Garden. Besides the Lancaster newspaper, he controls Dayton's WING and Springfield's WIZE radio stations, and Cincinnati's Coney Island. Its Shooting Star roller coaster is the fastest ride in the state of Ohio...
Soon his well-oiled swipes at prune-wrinkled millionaires and politicians and his nostalgic back-streetscapes began to attract attention. In 1942 his sprightly painting String Quartet won him a $3,000 purchase prize at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art. It was the first of a string of awards for Jack Levine...
...commissioned. Those were the days when the Air Corps had four planes and was a branch of the Signal Corps. Hap was taught to fly in Dayton by the Wright brothers. The planes he flew made 42 miles an hour and the only instrument was a piece of string tied to the undercarriage; if it did not tail straight back, the plane was sideslipping. Hap was the first to direct artillery fire by airborne radio, the first to show that planes could be used for reconnaissance. The first air mail was a mail sack he flew five miles across Long...
...first casualty of the '53 skaters' season came in the pre-game practice when second-string defenseman George Chase brought a broken nose out of a collision with goalie Andy Casner. Chase was taken to Stillman Infirmary, but received a quick release...
...newly-elected treasurer has been first-string quarterback for the varsity football team during the last two seasons. Houghton was a member of the Student Council and the Class Affairs Committee last year. At that time he ran all class elections...