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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...honorary life member of the Club, and he should be a real inspiration for the younger members." Wright can't understand why some people think figure skating is a feminine sport. "Anybody who feels that way should watch Button for five minutes," he explains. "When Dick goes into the air, he uses up just as much energy as a broadjumper...

Author: By Stephen N. Cady, | Title: Dick Button Set to Defend Three Figure Skating Titles | 12/9/1948 | See Source »

...summer months of the same year had pushed its way across the Don and into the industrial city of Stalingrad on the Volga, was cut off from its Army Group and left to shift for itself 300,000 men deep inside the Russian front, supplied inefficiently by air and gradually being killed among the snow-covered steppes and hills and the shattered remains of the city...

Author: By Arthur R. G. soimssen, | Title: The Bookshelf | 12/9/1948 | See Source »

...Blue-Gray game, since he is recognized as one of the best kickers in the East. He will take part in the annual all-star game for the first time but Rodis will be a repeater. in 1944 Nick represented New Hampshire while playing for the Third Air Force team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: They Pour 'T' Christmas Day | 12/7/1948 | See Source »

...sometimes lets it run on too long, sometimes lets it go too far. What tremendously braces The Silver Whistle's very shaky charm is José Ferrer's very assured performance. A master of florid roles, a born Cyrano de Bergeractor, Ferrer spouts and yarnspins with an air, never trades tinseled make-believe for drab reality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Dec. 6, 1948 | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

After weeks of mediation by James M. Landis, former Civil Aeronautics Board chairman, the Air Line Pilots Association last week ended its ten-month-old strike against National Airlines. The striking pilots went back to work with the same seniority they had at the time of the walkout. No provision was made for the nonunion pilots National had hired to fly its planes during the strike. With the strike settled, National still had to face a CAB hearing (TIME, Oct.11) next January, called to consider revocation of National's route franchises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Back in the Cockpit | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

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