Word: tollefson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Club's advisors--Lt. N. M. Tollefson of the Navy ROTC, and Capt. O'Connor of the Air Force ROTC unit--run a weekly ground school where members can study weather, navigation, care of aircraft, and civil flight regulations...
...Republican Candidate Richard Vail thinks his constituents are against Ike. Says he: "If they want their Congressman to go down to Washington for no other purpose than to genuflect every time Ike speaks, they've got the wrong man." In Washington State, when asked if G.O.P. Representative Thor Tollefson planned to attend the President's McNary Dam dedication, an aide replied: "Hell no, Thor doesn't want Ike to run on his coattails...
...Eisenhower grandchildren), Crown Prince Olav of Norway, and Chiang Kai-shek's eldest son, Lieut. General Chiang Ching-kuo (who presented him with a Formosan edition of his book, Crusade in Europe). He also got a 7 ft., 200-lb. pop-eyed halibut from Representative Thor Tollefson of Washington State. "Gee whiz," said the President when he met the monster fish on a porch bordering the Rose Garden, "I've never seen such a big fish...
...Winter Park, Fla. opened in sunny harmony under Acting President Hugh F. McKean, with a normal enrollment of 600 students. The only visible clouds on Rollins' horizon: a $500,000 law suit brought by ex-President Wagner for damages; a $25,000 suit brought by ex-Librarian Horace Tollefson against two anti-Wagnerites he claimed assaulted him. ¶ Bequest of the week: $156,345 to Williams College from the estate of a thrifty ex-salesman named Burritt Fitch Prudden, '97. Occupation at the time of his death: department store doorman and Christmas season Santa Claus. ¶ Course...
...same time announced: "The U.S. upholds the legal right of its fishermen to operate on the free high seas up to within three miles of the coast of Mexico." He got quick backing in Washington, where angry U.S. Congressmen spoke up. Growled Washington State's Representative Thor Tollefson: "If these shrimp boats were seized ten miles at sea, it is definitely a case of piracy on the high seas...