Word: 71st
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reporters looked up Bernie Wefers last week on the eve of his 71st birthday. In the New York Athletic Club, where he has coached track for 36 years, he peeled off his shirt and showed that the was still in condition (see cut}. Old-timers around the club swore that he would have shaved even his impossible 9.4 if he had ever really let himself...
Herbert Spencer Polin, a young (32) scientist whose home office is a laboratory on the 71st floor of Manhattan's Chrysler Building, got interested in coffee five years ago when Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. hired him for research on roasting methods. Finding that coffee contains all the chemical components of plastics, he went to work on his own to develop a process for combining them...
Steve rambled on: he was born near Ithaca, N.Y., when John Tyler was President; as a boy he saw Iroquois Indians roaming the woods. His grandparents gave their land to Cornell University-so he said. In 1861 he enlisted in Pennsylvania's 71st Infantry. "I fit in the Battle of Gettysburg. A Minieball took the tip of my finger off. Shell creased my scalp. When the battle was over I rode a horse to the White House to tell the President. ... I left Gettysburg at 3:30 p.m. and arrived at Lincoln's place at 9:15 that...
Casting for the title roles and the chorus is completed, and rehearses are now in full swing for the Pi Eta Club's 71st annual show, "Out of Line," to be given publicly at the clubhouse, Winthrop Square, Cambridge, on March...
...Last week, while Stanford, Texas A. & M., Tennessee, Boston College and other anxious candidates prepared for their last and most important games of the season, the Ivy Leaguers and the Big Ten-frowning on more than eight games a season-rang down the curtain on the 71st year of U. S. football...