Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vacation, faces Ed Townsley, a former schoolmate and recent Harvard NROTC student, who is rated high among league competitors in this event. Other strong West Point threats are i the 50 and 100-yard freestyle (where Lamden's Eli training is reputed dangerous) and the breaststroke where Jack Van Fleet hopes to upset the highly-rated Hoelzer...
...TIME'S editor-in-charge-of-Sweeping-Statements insists that the exceptional Telegraph, now covering the U.S. with eight correspondents, merely proves the Fleet Street rule...
TIME'S PRESS EDITOR GIVES EXCELLENT ACCOUNT NEWSPRINT-HUNGRY FLEET STREET [TIME, DEC. 15] BUT ERRS GRIEVOUSLY IN SWEEPING STATEMENT "U.S. NEWS RARELY MAKES THE FRONT PAGES UNLESS IT IS SUCH MUSICOMEDY STUFF AS THE 'HOLLYWOOD HEARINGS."' IN 78 ISSUES OF THE LONDON DAILY TELEGRAPH PUBLISHED BETWEEN SEPT. 11 AND DEC. 10 AMERICAN NEWS APPEARED ON FRONT PAGE ON 71 DIFFERENT DAYS. SOMETIMES THERE WERE SEVERAL AMERICAN STORIES ON FRONT PAGE. . . . HARDLY ANY OF THEM DEALT WITH THE HOLLYWOOD HEARINGS...
...Navy airmen, whose mortal fear is that the independent Air Force will try to swallow the Navy's air arm, lean, 51-year-old Annapolisman Radford is the one admiral who is outspoken enough to hold the service together. Commander of the Second Task Force of the Atlantic Fleet, he has been a pilot since 1920, has served in nearly every branch of the Navy air arm from fighter squadrons to command of a carrier task group in the Pacific. He has also done his desk time in Washington, got his battle command because of his decisive slicing...
...Thanks to geography and the far-darting teleprinter, a Fleet Street journal, by printing simultaneously in Manchester or Scotland, can be truly national, circulating almost from Land's End to John o' Groat...