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...critic once asked a lady what was the best way of "reaching" Marianne Moore. He was speaking of her poetry, but this was the deadpan reply: "Take the Sixth Avenue Independent Subway at 47th Street, the D train to Borough
...started taking its toll early. Defending Champion Jimmy Bryan quit after only two laps, when his Belond Special, hastily rebuilt after a disastrous engine freeze-up only one week before, developed clutch trouble. Mike Magill went to the hospital with neck injuries after hitting the Speedway wall on the 47th lap. Ray Crawford hit a wall on the 121st lap, suffered broken ribs. But through the pile-ups nothing bothered 38-year-old Veteran Rodger Ward of Los Angeles, a onetime fighter pilot who had never finished higher than eighth in eight previous "500" races. He nursed the dirty-white...
Discontent seethed through a knot of delegates last week as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce sat down in Washington for its 47th annual meeting. A top item on the agenda was an annual policy statement that was expected to repeat the chamber's traditionally liberal view of foreign trade, plumping for reduction of tariffs and elimination of quotas. Only a week before, four Congressmen at the biennial meeting of the International Chamber of Commerce in Washington had warned that protectionism is on the rise in the U.S. Now a group of chamber members set out to prove it. Representing...
Johnson drew warm applause when he spoke to the 47th annual meeting of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce about paring down the spending total and said, "I believe in a balanced budget...
...Woefully outdated agency rules were overhauled for the first time in 30 years, and the union's net worth, just shy of $750,000 when Bellamy took office, now stands at $1,500,000. despite expenditures of more than $300,000 for a new headquarters on West 47th Street...