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...usually girls), those hangers-on who may never get wet behind the ears as far as surfing goes but like to immerse themselves in the dense jargon of the in group. To all, "baggies" are the loose-legged boxer swim trunks worn by the boys. "Hot dogging" is either class-A surfing or show-off stuff. To "take gas" or "wipe out" is to lose a board in the curl of a wave and land in the foamy "soup...
Television. Two new television sets, each the cheapest in its class-a table model with a ten-inch screen for $249.95 and a "consolette" for $279,95-were brought out by Tele-Tone Radio Corp...
Coach Stahl used three pitchers in his attempt to stop the hard hitting soldiers, many of whom had played Class-A ball in pre-war days. His starter was Jim Phelan, who had his stuff but no control. After walking three men in two and one-third innings, he was lifted in favor of Freshman Jack Stanton...
...Hollywood's 1,753 class-A actors (class-B are extras), half earned $5,000 or less in 1938, 54 made $100,000 or more; 50% of the actors in Hollywood today have never earned as much as $10,500 a year...
This week Admiral Darlan was received by the Führer himself. And from Zurich it was reported that Adolf Hitler had bestowed on Darlan and his predecessor Pierre Laval the Kriegsverdienstkreuz, second class-a Nazi military decoration for war services rendered outside of military-action...