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...Johnny Bunker and Garland will high jump, Tim Coggeshall and Don McCaul in the three-mile, Archie Lyon in the 880, Herky Herskovits, Garland, and Ordway in the Javelin...
Trussed up like a shoat bound for market, a Curtiss Kittihawk fighter plane spewed bullets into a wood and earth bunker at Buffalo. In the Army's first public demonstration of warplane firepower since Pearl Harbor, the gas-pipe-like guns threw more than 387 Ib. of lead and armor-piercing steel per minute, clattering like a dozen riveting hammers inside a caisson...
...question mark as far as the result of the annual contest is concerned. With very green dashmen, and equally grass-colored quarter and half milers, the main burden of upholding the Crimson end of the meet would seem, at the present time, to rest on the shoulders of Johnny Bunker, Dick Pfister, and Mike Ford in the field events, and Bill Palson, Captain Bob Houghton, and Don MacKinnon in the races...
...Bunker was angry about a plant put up in his native State (Nevada) by Basic Magnesium, Inc., under contract with Jones's Defense Plants Corp. From a Truman subcommittee report, Bunker figured that the company had furnished only $50,000, but stood to make a profit of $2,140,000 (4,280%) in a single year. Cried he: "If the agreement . . . represents a cross section of conduct on the part of the Defense Plant Corporation . . . we are tolerating the existence of an agency of the Government that is so corrupt as to make profiteering in the last war look...
...Senator Bunker is a serious Young Democrat, a Mormon Bishop who was ap pointed to the Senate in 1940, who had heretofore held his peace while learning the ropes. But to Emperor Jones, he was just an annoying young squirt. Jones dashed off a hot reply...