Word: cal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Local track enthusiasts will be glad to hear that the latest midshipman else brought Southern Cal's sensational miles Rol Sink, with it. Rol's 4:16 mile last season was the fastest collegiate mile to the country. Joe Sydnor's definition of "speculation" tops all yet devised. Said ole Black Joe when queried by Pred Livesey, "Buyin' and hopin', I reckon...
...packed off to Camp Roberts, Cal. There he continued to make his views clear. He refused to obey orders and was court-martialed and given six months in the clink. Released for good behavior, he refused to drill with his squad. "I would rather be shot," he declared. Instead, he was court-martialed again and sentenced to be hanged...
Every room in Mellon from the second floor up is charged to the hilt with talk since Fortune brought its western issue out. Larry "christmas Spirit" Jaffa has called a "cal Homecoming" and everybody west of Philadelphia is going. Dick Shorrock is talking in public now on the advantages of Pike's Peak over the New Hampshire Hills for real skiling. He has a pair of skis straight from Shorrock's in Sacramento as well as a new shipment of oranges which Bob Stewart has been appointed special curator...
...bagged (TIME, Aug. 28). Last week the bargain was fulfilled: the Philharmonic played the premiere of Commander Wooldridge's Solemn Hymn for Victory-and the Wing Commander appeared in person to take his bows. Critics and audience agreed that he was a more finished virtuoso with the 50-cal. machine gun than with the composer's pen, but applauded him for both achievements...
...Republic's P47 Thunderbolt, which mounts eight .50-cal. machine guns, can also carry at least a 1,000-lb. load...