Word: circuits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Miracle Man." Al Whitney's father was a circuit-riding preacher in Iowa. Al had little schooling. At 15 he invested $2 in a basket of fruit and candy, boarded an Illinois Central train at Cherokee, and told the conductor that he was the new candy butcher. At 17 he was a brakeman, at 26 a freight conductor and a union member who applied evangelistic fervor to his fellow workers' grievances. He got on the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen's national payroll 43 years ago. He has never been off it (present salary...
...Scheduled for broadcast on an NBC hookup, it was heard no farther than Asheville's auditori um. Just after the A.F. of L. president had been introduced, someone snipped circuit wires in a basement spot only 20 feet from where the Asheville Chamber of Commerce was serving corn likker to the press...
Although the score was tied at 2 all in the fifth inning, the Crimson batters were unable after that to work another man around the circuit. Bob Bagwell, pitching for the Huskies, held the Stahlmen, indeed, to six scattered hits for the game and allowed only one base on balls...
Silent Tom got that way partly from his early wanderings as a sheepherder, cowhand, rodeo blacksmith, and trainer of quarter horses. For nearly 25 years he was a "gyp" horse trainer on a western leaky-roof circuit. He was in his 503 before he landed his first big-time training job, and today is one of the crack trainers at pointing a horse for a specific race. His first masterstroke: claiming a $7,500 plater and developing him into mighty Seabiscuit...
First prediction of the next Law School Dean has come from Walter Winchell with the suggestion in his daily column that the appointment of Federal Circuit Court Justice Calvert Magruder of Boston will soon be announced. Both the Law School and Justice Magruder called the report "sheer rumor" when asked for comment yesterday...