Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Peaches & Plums. This year's vegetable crop is a record-breaker and By Ward Market showed it. Ripe tomatoes as big as softballs glowed in almost every stall. Heaps of corn, cucumbers, rutabagas and broccoli were piled around them. On the fruit stands were new Duchess and Melba apples, peaches, plums and melons. For added color and fragrance there were asters, snapdragons, baby's breath, zinnias...
...long trip up Mount Hood. Local clubs had donated the buses, neighboring towns were waiting with ice cream and coffee, restaurants gave away box lunches, the Chamber of Commerce distributed apples. Miss Howe had also arranged for conferences between the new teachers and their principals, shown them around their classrooms. Said Teacher Kenneth Means: "Portland's wonderful. I think we'll stick for quite a while...
...Milton (Steve Canyon) Caniff has brilliantly adapted movie techniques to cartooning. Caniff moves around the scenes he invents as restlessly as a camera under the direction of Alfred Hitchcock, intercutting panoramic long shots with close-ups of action and expression. He stays well ahead of a host of imitators...
...almost six furlongs set the pace, while Arcaro was content to lag behind. (Says Eddie: "Citation's a great competitive colt. He wants speed out in front of him.") On the far turn Citation overtook and easily passed Papa. Jockey R. L. Baird gave Papa a breather around the bend. Most of the fans, and Citation himself, seemed to figure that he had Papa licked. But in the stretch, Baird sent Papa up again. Said Baird later: "For a couple of seconds, I was an optimist. We got up within a half length of him. But when we came...
Many a big-time publisher dropped around to take an appraising look. But last week it was a neighbor who went to the rescue. In a reorganization and stock transfer, Eugene Collins Pulliam bought control of the afternoon News (circ. 173,000), and merged it with his profitable morning Star (181,000). He will merge everything but the news gathering staff...