Word: ever
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...food all over the world to failing Allies and then followed up with armies, navies, and air forces to Europe, Asia, Africa, to outposts in North and South America, and on islands across the seven seas--yet, at home, kept up the highest standard of living the world has ever known? The United States system, as it has been and still is, needs make no apologies to nay other...
...Palm Springs, Calif, last week, football's eldest statesman had a few words to say. White-haired Amos Alonzo Stagg, who began coaching when Knute Rockne was a two-year-old boy in Norway, had forgotten more about the game than some of the younger coaches present ever knew. He originated such things as the end-around play, the fake kickoff and the tackling dummy-and at 86, is still going strong as coach at Susquehanna University. Said Stagg at a National Collegiate Athletic Association rules committee meeting, where free substitution was the main topic...
...biggest eye-poppers were four $30,000 Cadillacs, the costliest production cars ever built in the U.S. (and described by hard-breathing pressagents as "sleek and sybaritic specimens of automotive splendor...
...about two Englishwomen who were being chauffeur-driven around Detroit in a G.M. limousine. Someone touched a hydraulic window-lift button by mistake, and the glass partition dropped, letting in a blast of air that billowed up the guests' skirts. "Gracious!" cried one, "don't you Americans ever do anything by hand...
...home, C.E. is up at 7 for a quick shower, breakfast and a chat with his wife. "It's about the only time I ever get to talk with Erwin," she says. When it comes to food, her husband is easily pleased; his favorites are chipped beef or salted peanuts, or both, any time of day. The Wilsons gave up most entertaining long ago; if C.E. showed up at functions at all, he was late, and loaded with work...