Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more than 40 candidates still out for the team only three have demonstrated enough to be assured of a starting berth. In the lead of the trio will be last year's co-captain, midfielder Ned Dewey, who played large amounts of tackle for Dick Harlow last fall. Right up with Dewey will be his football tackle twin, Ed Davis, a defenseman on the 1943 team. Rounding out the experienced threesome, Jay Hurley, a letterman back from the 1942 and 1943 teams can do much to bolster last year's woefully weak attack...
...instantly released, had shot George Hart up into the 250 m.p.h. airstream which tossed him back to tumble, without a parachute, more than 3½ miles into the troubled ocean. Said a colleague: "I hope he was knocked out. It would take almost a minute and a half to fall 19,000 feet...
...parched Grahamstown, on the eastern coast of Cape Province, the royal family arrived just as the first showers in four months began to fall. "The King is the bringer of rain!" shouted 9,000 grateful Bantus massed in the town square. Dusky women, their faces painted white and yellow for the occasion, waved corncob pipes in lusty greeting; Bantu men, led by dapper Chief Vukile (in a smart brown suit and fedora) and his counselors (one in a gilded top hat, military greatcoat and pajama pants), raised cheers for "Sozizwe"(the Father of All Nations) and prepared to slaughter eight...
Poet Stephen Spender had a new job. The tall,wavy-haired Oxonian was hired (for next fall) to tell the young ladies at Sarah Lawrence College, in suburban Bronxville, N.Y., about literature and philosophy...
Tyrone Power, just home from a few pleasant months in Mexico City, helped wife Annabella pack her bags. "Any discussion of a reconciliation with my husband," recited Annabella precisely to the press, "must wait until my return in the fall." Then she was off to Paris...