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Dallas and Fort Worth are only 30 miles apart-almost as close, one might say, as two tomcats in a shoe box-and this proximity has bred in citizens of both cities a splendid sense of mutual distrust. Nevertheless, back in 1941 when it became evident that the airports of both towns were getting outmoded, they joined forces to plan a huge, jointly owned field midway between the two cities. Then Dallas representatives made a horrible discovery: the field entrance was to be a mile and a half closer to Fort Worth than to Dallas. They walked...
Tuft's Boy Jones, who won the bred jump yesterday, took 11 points, and the meet's scoring honors. He tied last evening's high jump and finished third in the hurdles. Jumbo Jack Goldberg took first in the hurdles and fourth in the 50 yard dash, for six points. Brow 's Walter Molineux won the mile in 4:40.3, exactly 31 seconds slower than his Millrose time...
...most unsuitable marriage. As a great-grandson of the tough old Commodore who built the New York Central, Cornelius Vanderbilt had some claims to aristocracy. Grace's social assets were far more modest. Her father, Richard T. Wilson, was a onetime Georgia farm boy whom well-bred New Yorkers regarded with distaste because he had made his fortune himself and had started it by speculating in cotton while more gentlemanly Southerners were off fighting Yankees...
...sullen olive groves and dwarf wheat fields around San Severo, on the spur of the Italian boot, have long bred Communists. Working for as little as 64? a day on land they could never buy, the San Severini were eager listeners to Communist organizers, who promised "The land will be given to you when Palmiro [Togliatti] is Premier of Italy...
...this year to 29 million lbs.). This product is, more & more, replacing fresh milk in ice cream and other foods, with the result that more milk is now being diverted into butter. Butter supplies have also swelled for the simple reason that cows have been bred and fed to produce much more milk than they ever did before...