Word: closers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rescue teams pressed their search into the second night the survivors remembered what they could of the final minutes. One recalled his last words to Ambassador Atcheson as the B-17 glided closer to the tossing waves: "I'm sorry it had to end this way." Smiling a little, Atcheson had replied calmly: "Well, it can't be helped...
Family Affair. Ailing Babe Ruth himself, 15 years a Yankee player, has become a Giant fan-partly because he likes to see home runs, partly (he explains) because the Polo Grounds are closer than Yankee Stadium to his apartment on Manhattan's Riverside Drive. Ruth doubts that Mize or anybody else will break his record; but if somebody has to break it, he hopes that big Jawn will be the man. Mize is Mrs. Ruth's second cousin, and the Babe would like to keep the record in the family...
...penetrating hue of Communist dogma. That such men exist, that they occupy positions of power is one of the most important facts in today's world. Gromyko does not belong in the category of the commissars of the 1920s, who were far more imaginative and volatile. He is closer to the yogi type?a yogi in disciplined contemplation of a narrow cult...
With a change in rowing conditions, times were slower for the second heat and produced a closer contest, won by Herman Page. Off to a bad start, Page pulled up on Roger Clapp to win in 4:09. Clapp's time was 4:14. One man was eliminated in each trial...
...pair flashed considerable form as they flipped what could have been a pigskin, but on closer inspection turned out to be an emptied fifth, back and forth in short bullet heaves...