Word: georgetown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...June 13, 1777 the Marquis de La fayette stepped ashore at Georgetown, S. C., to help the U. S. win its War of Independence. Last June, 163 years later-less one day-Lafayette's great-great-great-grandson (and therefore an honorary U. S. citizen before being born), Count René de Chambrun, stepped ashore at LaGuardia Field's marine base to try to speed help from the U. S. to hard-pressed France...
...colony, feeling was summed up in a phrase: "Now there is only one Ally." As Lord Lothian drove to the State Department he passed the Czech Legation, where sad-looking Minister Vladimir Hurban still lives. Next door to it the old Austrian Legation was gone, its Minister now a Georgetown University professor and his wife the local representative of a dress company. The Danish Legation, which moved into the same building, is still open, its Minister refusing to recognize the Government in Copenhagen. Polish Ambassador Count Jerzy Potocki rides in the day coach, has part of his staff live...
...first qualifying round-played to the tune of mountain-echoing thunderstorms-almost half the field shot 78 or better. After the second qualifying round (which determines the 64 low scorers who are to fight it out in match play), Georgetown's red-thatched Johnny Burke, who reached the third round of the U. S. Amateur last year, was out in front with a 36-hole total of 143. Johnny Burke is Irish, was born on St. Patrick's Day and is a twin. But last week, in the shadow of the Green Mountains, the luck of the Irish...
Alfred C. Blozis, son of a New Jersey laborer, stands 6 ft. 6, weighs 250 lb., is a perfectly coordinated strong man. During last winter's indoor track season, Blozis, a Georgetown University sophomore, cracked a world's record almost every time he picked up the iron grapefruit. In six indoor meets, he put the 16-lb. shot 36 times. Nineteen times he bettered the world's record (53 ft. 1½ in.) set by Louisiana's famed 300-lb. Jack Torrance. A half-dozen times he chalked up 55 ft., once...
...weeks ago, in the Penn Relay Carnival, he started out creditably with a 55 ft. 5⅜ in. toss that broke the meet record by almost three feet. Last week, in the Intercollegiate A. A. A. A. track meet, held in a downpour at Harvard's Stadium, the Georgetown giant, skidding around in ankle-deep mud, heaved the slippery cannonball 53 ft. 6⅜ in., later 53 ft. 9¼ in. to set a new intercollegiate outdoor mark...