Word: contesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Honolulu last week, George McMillen, of Los Angeles, paused briefly on a junket to China. Among other assignments, McMillen would enter a Philippine jungle, shouting for Chloe. If she failed to answer, he was to bring home a boa constrictor. McMillen is a contest loser. He missed a $2,000 prize on NBC's Truth or Consequences. The consequence: his trip, paid for jointly by the radio show and Robert ("Believe It or Not") Ripley...
...William H. McCormick of Lock Haven, Pa. has taken up public life since winning the $17,590 Mrs. Hush (Clara Bow) contest. "A lot of civic groups asked me to make speeches. I ran for the school board and made it. If I hadn't won the contest the town never would have put a woman on the school board." At first Mrs. McCormick was a cynosure: "People arrived from hundreds of miles around, just to look at me. They made pilgrimages . . . If I didn't come to the door, they peered in the windows...
Brown and M.I.T. had outsped the Crimson sailors in previous meets while the Elis had already beaten them in an earlier meet and bowed in a dual contest...
...unusually large crowd rolled out of bed in time to watch the warm-up contest, wherein Holly Mann Lockhart nursed a baby carriage down the 1300 foot course in time to suare a first in the married seniors' event...
Quickly following up tomorrow's contest, the 150's face their letter meet next Saturday when they take to the oars against Yale and Princeton in hopes of maintaining a hold on the Bowditch Cup. But the big regatta is on deck for the following weekend at Princeton in the Wright Cup competition where Cornell, Columbia, Penn, and M.I.T. as Well as the Elis and the Tigers, will be vying to wrest the trophy from Cambridge...