Word: alf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tokle's old No. 1 competitor, Norwegian-born, 36-year-old Alf Engen of Sun Valley, set the new course record at 259 feet to win the first National Ski Championships since 1942. His leap was still 30 feet short of Tokle's U.S. record jump, made off Michigan's Iron Mountain in 1942-and far short of the 300-ft. jump that Tokle had predicted for Steamboat Springs...
...feit free to say many things that her husband did not. As New Dealers the Clappers often admired Roosevelt, often felt disappointed in him, supported him except in 1940, when Raymond-but not Olive-switched to Willkie. Both of the Clappers felt closer to their fellow Kansan Alf Landon (whom Clapper opposed jn 1936) than to all the Roosevelts put together...
Carlson backers include Alf Landon, still a potent figure in Kansas politics, and Senator Arthur Capper, who owns a string of influential Kansas newspapers. Capper, 81 next July, will probably retire when his Senate, term ends in 1949. Washington quidnuncs guessed last week that he was grooming Frank Carlson as his successor...
...study vice," he worked at panhandling and slept on park benches. He also wrote his best work, a swatch of unabashed autobiographical writings (Tropic of Cancer; Tropic of Capricorn and others), and several volumes of second-rate philosophy with first-rate titles (What Are You Going to Do About Alf? ; Money and How It Gets that Way; Max and the White Phagocytes...
...free immunizing injections to thousands of Chinese. U.S. doctors have tried to stop the local practice of bleeding, which reduces body fluids already depleted by the disease. (All U.S. troops and officials going to potential cholera areas are immunized and none have caught cholera in Chungking. The Norwegian ambassador, Alf Hassel, caught it, but is recovering.) UNRRA dispatched seven experts, tons of water-purifying and other equipment to Chungking...