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This is also Brown's first coaching job. His appointment marks the first time since the retirement of Bert Haines, regular varsity 150 coach until 1952, that the burden of teaching both freshman and varsity lightweights has been taken off the shoulders of a single graduate student...
Albert Benjamin ("Happy") Chandler is back from political oblivion. When the final returns from Kentucky's Democratic gubernatorial primary (TIME, Aug. 8) were counted last week, Happy had the nomination by an 18,500-vote length over his sober young opponent, Judge Bert T. Combs...
What made Happy win? A voter from the Upper Red Bird district, in Combs's own Clay County, explained it. "We didn't vote against Bert Combs," he said. "We just voted for Happy Chandler because we fell in love with his winsome personality...
...Since last April, when the Victoria Times offered $1,000 to the first swimmer to cross the strait, four men and three women have tried for the prize, have been defeated by the channel's fierce tides and unrelenting chop. Last week a barrel-shaped Tacoma logger named Bert Thomas, 29, slipped into the water at Port Angeles, Wash., swam through the night, and eleven hours, 17 minutes and 30 seconds later emerged cold and grinning on the Canadian shore...
...worked up so much sentiment and spleen. "Dogs that are tied up and fenced continuously will become excited and grieved," warned grieved, excited Attorney Philip Rossman, the Denver dog's best friend. "On behalf of Rusty, my old Irish setter," the Denver Post's veteran Statehouse Reporter Bert Hanna wrote a misty-eyed protest: "It will be the end of Rusty. He could not live under those restrictions . . . When this law is passed, he will pass quietly away...