Word: bike
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bike. Robinson's men can do a swift and objective job of reporting. When the 45th first went into action in Sicily, its News .staff went along. Mauldin cycled to beachhead ships to fetch news from their radios and personal experiences of the men. Result: first Allied invasion edition in Sicily, a hand-pressed single sheet. Moving up, the News soon had another extra, delivered by ration box. The headline: "Benito Finite...
...University bike owners get their last chance to register their machines without fine today, as the closing date for plate applications has been set for this afternoon...
Since the deadline for getting the news places is next Wednesday, bike-owners should waste no time in registering, superintendent Stuart said. Blanks will be given out at the office in Grays...
...Shipwreck") Kelly (see cut), who settled himself for a four-day perch, said he was going to try to get into the Navy when he came down. Durable old Walter William ("Pudge") Heffelfmger, 74 (see cut), spectacular Yale football guard of the '90s, wheeled out the high-wheeled bike he had ridden in his youth, unsentimentally handed it over to scrap collectors. Oil-rationed citizens all over the nation worried about the winter, but in long-limbed Cinemactress Loretta Young's heart was no dread. To keep warm on a midwinter night in California she had a solution...
Home Secretary Herbert Morrison and an agile-kneed schoolboy, Leonard Mitchell, were the winners. Leonard pedaled his bike furiously, through lanes of bridge workmen perched on railings, reached the Waterloo (South) end of the bridge ahead of the nearest chugging taxi. Exulted Leonard: "It will be something to remember...