Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Handicapping, on the basis of previous record, experience, and state of training, as well as brief observation during the last week, has been done, and the squad is now divided into six categories, from outright newcomers to former Varsity pacemakers. At about 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon the starting gun will send the first 15 men on their way up the riverside course from behind Newell Boat House...
Johnson, typecast as a man no woman can conceivably resist for long, isn't resisted for long by either Miss Williams or Miss Ball. He ends up married to Miss Williams, but not without a brief intermediate marriage of convenience, cooked up by Wynn, to the red-head. In one of the neatest speeches of the year, Miss Ball yells her red head off about being the goat of it all, and Wynn comes to the rescue, thus balancing off the foursome. The economic motive is present, too, in the form of a two million dollar libel suit which starts...
They stood in silent admiration for several minutes, their eyes sweeping the large room, and then gathered for a brief, hardly audible discussion. "And just to think," one Yardling intoned to his companion, not unlike stout Balboa, upon a peak at Darien, "all those fellows are Harvard...
...Resting in Persia, after a brief unpublicized bout of baby-bussing in Russia (see cut): Princess Ashraf, sister of Persia's Shah Mohamed Reza Pahlevi. Under the auspices of the Soviet Red Cross and Red Crescent Society, Princess Ashraf called on Stalin (who muttered good wishes for Persia), laid a wreath on Lenin's mausoleum, attended a physical culture parade, attended a tea given by Soviet President Nikolai Shvernik's wife, viewed Leningrad's Museum of Defense, The Hermitage, the Pediatrics Institute. For her pains, she was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor...
Central Americans observed the 125th anniversary of independence from Spain by talking about union with each other. They had once-for a brief moment in history-been united before. For 16 years after the fall of the Spanish Captaincy-General, they had lived turbulently together as the United Provinces of Central America. They had broken apart, but the memory still lived...