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...chunky, pony-gaited Gregory Rice, taking time off from his duties as chief petty officer at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, L.I. to defend the championship he had won for five successive years. The other: gaunt, gazelle-gaited Gunder Hagg (pronounced Hegg), the touted Swedish fireman who was making his U.S. debut in the national 5,000-meter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fireman on the Track | 6/28/1943 | See Source »

...astronomical remoteness from the conditions of life of which they spoke." I realize that good book reviewers are also hard come by in these days. With your strange self-imposed code of anonymity, one never knows whether we are getting the words of your department head, or some visiting fireman. Perhaps this particular review is the work of some assistant fire-manette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 7, 1943 | 6/7/1943 | See Source »

Left. By the late Carl Meeker, 67, Los Angeles railroad fireman: his stomach; to science. Ballyhooed after a 1917 ulcer operation as the possessor of a transplanted goat's stomach, he had the last laugh on medicos, who found that their legacy was only human after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 7, 1943 | 6/7/1943 | See Source »

...started for the U.S. with a better build-up than Gunder Hägg. Last summer he broke ten world's records at distances ranging from 1,500 to 5,000 meters (slightly over three miles). From sketchy reports U.S. track fans pieced together an extraordinary figure: a fireman by trade, so thin he looks like an inmate of a Jap prison camp, and yet rugged enough to run a mile in 4:04.6, two miles in 8:47.8, three miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Visiting Fireman | 5/24/1943 | See Source »

...Republican voting trend continued. After 16 years as Mayor of Baltimore, ruddy, cherubic Howard Wilkinson Jackson, 65, last week found himself out of a job. Democrat Jackson, who had kept a profitable insurance business on the side, was soundly trounced (20,000 votes) by Republican Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin, 42, fireman's son, lawyer, spellbinder. All other Democrats on the ticket were elected, but Republicans had won the best flitch of political bacon. Democrats, who have lost the mayoralty only twice before since 1900, blamed the defeat on 1) the accumulated enmities which pile up on any longtime officeholder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trend in Baltimore | 5/17/1943 | See Source »

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