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...meet: the 66th annual outdoor Intercollegiate A.A.A.A. championships. The athletes: Penn State's Sprinter Barney Ewell, New York University's Miler Leslie MacMitchell, Georgetown's Shot Putter Al Blozis. With customary prowess, each of these supermen dominated his particular field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Supermen & Cripples | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

...ship's electrician, was not dead. While the raft under him drifted in the doldrums, he clung to life, alternately raved, mumbled and lay insensate under the equatorial sun. Last week came word that after 46 days on the flotsam-cradling sea he had been picked up near Georgetown, British Guiana, was recovering in a hospital there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: First There Were Three | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

...first in Washington. With degrees from Augustana College, Princeton, Columbia, Georgetown (law), he had once toiled in the Interior Department; later in the Farm Security Administration, where he did resettlement work. With his wife, a onetime physical-education instructor, he entertained carefully and well. In 1940 Lund went back to Michigan, ran for Congress, lost a close race. He remained to serve Governor Van Wagoner, kept one eye peeled on Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Step Up, Step Down | 5/11/1942 | See Source »

ASSIGNMENT IN GUIANA-George Harmon Coxe-Knopf ($2). An eventful and fast-moving tale of Nazi intrigue in South America, where a young Bostonian assists the Georgetown constabulary in the solution of two murders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder in April | 5/4/1942 | See Source »

...corresponding tour last spring, the Varsity won only one of four games, losing the other three to teams it encounters again this time. Navy won 7-6, Georgetown 7-4, and George Washington held the Crimson to a two-hit, 1-0 shutout...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Nine To Battle Six Foes On Southern Trip | 3/27/1942 | See Source »

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