Word: ever
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Suits Are for Practice. Shirley May once swam 33 miles in Michigan's Lake St. Clair in 24½ hours. Last year she wound up tenth in the twelve-mile Lake George race, and since she was the only woman who ever finished that grueling event, she was given a trophy. Three weeks ago, as a warm-up for the Channel, she swam 14 miles from Manhattan's Battery to Coney Island, going a mile or more out of her way to avoid dirty water from a sewer...
...sense, the papers had been on their way to New Haven for 23 years, ever since Ralph H. Isham (Yale '14) first heard of them. One batch had been uncovered in Ireland's Malahide Castle in 1927, another in Scotland. Isham bought the Malahide papers, and after years of dickering acquired the rest. Scholars hailed them as the greatest literary find of the century...
...slender and mild-mannered man, with a Boston twang and a lively spring to his step. Everybody knew him all right: he was James Bryant Conant, the first Harvard president ever to give a course at the summer school. What happens when a president turns professor? By last week, his students agreed that U.S. faculties would do well to have more men like Teacher Conant...
Last January, Hearst's King Features Syndicate decided to run an advertisement in Editor & Publisher for Westbrook Pegler's column. It began digging around for quotable puffs, had trouble finding any. Few people had ever said anything good about Pegler, who so seldom has anything good to say about anyone else. Finally, at the syndicate's prodding, Pegler remembered that "an old geezer named 'Seidlitz"-meaning, as everybody knew, of course, Literary Critic Henry Seidel Canby-had once cast him a few pearls of praise...
...Fifteen hundred visitors trooped through the Orangerie every day to inspect the pictures of sable-skinned, expressionless Tahitians lounging somnolently along lush tropical shores, the earlier canvases of rolling Breton hills plotted out in poster-clear patches of color. Critics hailed the exhibit. Said one: "The best retrospective show ever staged in France...