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Ogden, whom coach Bill McCurdy considers this year's "bonus," took his first workout since his injury yesterday and Crain, whose performance against Penn and Columbia was his first real effort in a week, should be in shape for Friday's meet with Dartmouth. Captain Ed Meehan ran his strongest race of the year against the Lions and Quakers. And sophomore ace Walt Hewlett, who joins Meehan and Crain in McCurdys "Big Three," has performed well all season. Hewlett's main problem is such spectacular first times that no one is satisfied when he runs a merely good race...
...state. When he was ten years old, they turned on him and publicly branded him a thief. From there on until 1948, he was in and out of prison. Wandering Europe, he became by turns a dope smuggler, a beggar, a Foreign Legionnaire (he took the enlistment bonus and deserted) and a male prostitute...
...crates weighing more than a ton, dockmen get an extra 30% of their base pay; for deteriorated cargo, 50%; for cold-storage cargo, an extra 100%. They draw 30% extra when it rains, even if the rain stops before they start working. Dusty cargo is worth a 25% bonus; smelly cargo, 35%. And when a ship is loading or unloading gasoline and oil, dockmen collect 50% on top of their regular pay for doing no work at all-they just sit and watch hose crews man the pumps...
Last week at the big coffee port of Santos, 13,000 dockers struck for even more, demanding a bonus on top of a bonus. Up to last December they received a yearly Christmas dividend equivalent to one-twelfth of their total earnings during the year. Then the federal government decreed that all Brazilian workers should receive a similar Christmas gift. The dockers reasoned that this entitled them to another bonus; the port concessionaire at Santos said no. Dockmen also demanded a 30-day paid vacation each year, full pay for days they are on strike, and a 20% "shame" bonus...
...future historian." Written in a firm and clear hand, from his own recollections and his own papers, MacArthur's 220,000-word manuscript was completed in six months. It takes the full measure of his illustrious career-World War I, his service in the Philippines, the 1932 Bonus March on Washington, which MacArthur, then Army Chief of Staff, stemmed at "the Battle of Anacostia Flats," the heroic triumphs of World War II, and his final recall by President Truman from command in Korea in 1951. "I felt that a mass of misinformation and lack of information required some further...