Word: closed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, Private Papageorgiou's heart was high, his spirits soaring. The Greek army was slowly beating back the Communist guerrillas who, more than once, had been close to engulfing the whole country. Georgios and 200,000 Greek soldiers like him had accomplished this feat with the help of a soldier from a foreign land with a heart every bit as stout as theirs. He was Lieut. General James Alward Van Fleet, combat infantryman, sometime U.S. division and corps commander and now head of the Joint U.S. Military Advisory and Planning Group (JUSMAPG) in Greece...
...making discords in the wings. Since January, the pianists have been trying to get out of their contracts with Manager Edwin Fadiman (Clifton's brother), who, they claim, gets too big a cut of the receipts. The receipts were nothing to trifle with; last year the quartet made close to $240,000 in concert tours, radio and recordings...
Last week, Martin & Lewis got three offers from TV sponsors, turned them all down to wait for a sponsor who will parlay them on both radio & television. Even without sponsors, the team will earn close to $750,000 in 1949. But radio cannot show the half of what Martin & Lewis have; they must be seen, on television or in a nightclub...
...alert defense held the Eli squad to one point in the second half of the game at Soldiers Field, enabling high scorers Ned Yost, Bob Baldwinfi and Dunc McCallum to close the score...
...Pennsylvania match should be fairly close with the crimson being the slight favorite. Pennsylvania has never been a strong power in tennis...