Word: willards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, Dr. Willard F. Libby of the University of Chicago gave his decision on some charred bison bones sent to him by Dr. Elias Howard Sellards of Austin, Texas, who took them from a deposit full of distinctive Folsom artifacts. Dr. Libby measured the radioactivity of the carbon in the remains of the bones' organic material.* His conclusion: the bison died (and was probably cooked and eaten) about 10,000 years ago. Therefore, Folsom Man must have been a bison-chasing Texan at that remote period...
Until a couple of months ago, tall, sandy-mustached Willard A. Pleuthner was only a vice president of a big Manhattan advertising agency (Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn Inc.). Last week dazed Adman Pleuthner was trying to adjust himself to the fact that he had suddenly become an important layman-consultant to the country's Protestant churches...
Since their "please resign" telegram to Superintendent Willard Goslin three weeks ago (TIME, Nov. 27), the Pasadena board of education had received some vehement samples of Pasadena public opinion. While anti-Goslinites expressed their satisfaction, supporters of the able, widely known superintendent (he is a former president of the American Association of School Administrators), vociferously displeased, demanded reconsideration. The secretary of the board went hoarse handling incoming phone calls...
Last week, still unmoved, the board repeated its demand for Goslin's resignation, got it. Said Willard Goslin, who received a 16-month salary settlement of $23,250: he was grateful to all his friends in Pasadena but, after all, the voters had elected the members of the present school board. "We are dedicated to representative government. I cannot remain in contempt of democratic action...
...week's end, Willard Goslin had not yet resigned, and Pasadena was still trying to find out what it believed in and what it wanted...