Word: bille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...back of his hand is San Francisco's Harry Lundeberg, a far-left-winger now boss of the A.F.L. Sailors Union of the Pacific. Not long ago, Lundeberg got a letter from William Z. Foster, chairman of the Communist Party, appealing for help in fighting the Mundt-Nixon bill (see The Capital). Tough, tattooed Harry Lundeberg last week punched out this reply...
Pennsylvania's coach, Rusty Callow, calls them the second best crew he has ever seen. Reading from stern to bow: SAM MANTEL, cox; BILL CURWEN, stroke; PAUL KNAPLUND (captain), 7; FRANK STRONG, 6; JUD GALE, 5; DICK EMMET, 4; TED REYNOLDS, 3; DON FELT, 2; MIKE SCULLY...
...world. Although the crew rows distances up to on miles a day in practice, all the season's regular races are sprints, with lengths ranging from the Henley distance of one and five-sixteenths miles--"leave it to the British to pick such an unorthodox distance" says Bill Bingham--through the mile-and-three-quarters, two-mile, and 2000 meter courses...
Trustless Rails? The Senate passed and sent to the White House the Bulwinkle Bill to exempt railroads and other common carriers from antitrust prosecution in connection with agreements on rates (but not on services, facilities, etc.) which are approved by the Interstate Commerce Commission. President Truman is expected to veto the bill. Congressional backers of the bill think they can muster enough votes to override a veto...
...coonskin cap; 4) Donald Duck, Joe Carioca and Organist Ethel Smith in the throes of a samba; 5) an apotheosis of Joyce Kilmer's Trees; 6) a young tugboat named Little Toot which disgraces and redeems itself; 7) a tall-tale, free-for-all finale about Pecos Bill, his horse Widow-maker and his gal Sluefoot...