Word: 41st
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...movie plot. His 1919 Paris marriage to a wealthy beauty, Linda Lee Thomas, has been placid, childless, fashionable-and free of both the romantic hubbub and the folksiness that Hollywood prefers in its patterned fictions. Intimates describe the Porters as "great, devoted friends." They live on the 41st floor of Manhattan's Waldorf Towers, and from time to time share the mirrored elegance of his California summer place in Brentwood (complete with a swimming pool that lights up at night), or her luxurious house in Williamstown, Mass. Servants are kept the year round at both places...
Tomorrow's game, the 41st renewal for the classic, opens 1948 competition for the Big Three Title and for the tenth time since the series was started in 1877 Princeton is defending champ. In its nine previous attempts at defending the crown, it has succeeded only once, and nine years ago, when Nassau last held the title, it was Harvard that upset the apple cart by holding the Tigers to a scoreless...
After four months of furious effort, the fast-moving real-estate firm of Webb & Knapp Inc. had control of a rundown, 30-acre, eight-block area on the East Side (41st to 49th Streets, First Avenue to the East River). Webb & Knapp promptly announced plans to replace the run-down stables, warehouses, slaughterhouses and tenements with the biggest, costliest city-within-a-city ever built. Cost: $150,000,000. Features: a 57-story office building, three 30-story apartments, a 6,000-capacity convention hall, a yacht landing, a helicopter field, a 5,000,000,000-sq.-ft. parking platform...
Martin Graebner was a 41st Division chaplain in New Guinea and the Philippines. Now he is a University of Chicago graduate student (philosophy), living in a tiny prefabricated shack with his wife and baby. The Graebners have seen only one movie in the last six months. By skimping in this and a dozen other ways, solemn, 31-year-old Martin Graebner manages to scrape through on $140 a month. The G.I. Bill of Rights allows him $90. He makes up the difference by acting as campus Lutheran chaplain...
Tokyo's 41st Division basketball team upset the dope by whipping Okinawa's Flyers (Long Island University's 1942 wizard team almost intact), then flattened Hawaii for the championship...