Word: famed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks from this Wednesday night the HARVARD SERVICE NEWS will once again open the doors to fame, fortune and free beer when they start their usual spring competition for positions on the board of editors...
...Inky Ingersoll (banjo), and Jack Hart (drums). Johnny Windhurst, it will be recalled, came up from New York with Jim Moynahan '23, for a session last month. Since, then, he's moved to South Weymouth (living with Charlie Vinal). George Lugg is the veteran tailgate trombonist of Chicago jazz fame who appeared twice last summer at the Harvard Jazz Club's sessions with Art Hodes' band. He's making the trip up from New York. The others are Boston musicians who have frequently appeared at previous sessions...
...sport's fame has spread to other theaters. The R.A.F. sent an officer from Italy to Cairo to borrow equipment. South African girls stationed in Cairo talked U.S. Sergeant Walter Dzilinski into coaching them, challenged U.S. nurses at softball, licked them 7-3. (The nurses promptly blacklisted Dzilinski, demanded two return games, won both.) The Army's sports program in the Middle East ranges from ping-pong (in place of tennis) to basketball. Many camps have lighted, wooden courts. Boxing is one of the most popular sports. Licked last year by the British, U.S. boxers are now training...
...seen my duty and I done it," said he, properly embarrassed by his fame. "I'd just see one, give him a squirt and go up again, look around, see another, give him a squirt, then go up again, look around and repeat. There were: a lot of them around and it was just a matter of shooting at them...
Died. Ida Minerva Tarbell, 86, crusading journalist, onetime "Terror of the Trusts" (The History of the Standard Oil Company); of pneumonia; in Bridge port, Conn. Daughter of a Pennsylvania oilman driven to the wall by the Rocke fellers, onetime seminary teacher Ida Tarbell gained fame for herself and thousands of new readers for McClure's with her 1896 serialized Life of Lincoln. In 1902-04 she helped bust the oil trust with a series of 19 McClure's articles; they brought in a gusher of public resentment that flowed all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which...