Word: haling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eugene Talmadge, Georgia's bang-browed cracker Governor, cracked off again last week. The three-week-old news reached him that 30,000 hale, hearty and draftable Georgians had been rejected by the Army because they were illiterate. Quick as a gallus snap, "furriner"-hating Gene up & said: New York is "the most illiterate state in the Union." He knew it, he said, because he'd been there, and had heard waiters who could hardly talk English. Without bothering to point to the census facts (in 1940 Georgia had 30.1% with four years or less of schooling...
...Little Ben Hogan, red-hot, ice-veined Texan: the Hale America golf tournament, war-benefit substitute for the U.S. Open; with a 72-hole total of 271 (72-62-69-68); at Chicago's Ridgemoor Country Club. Though Hogan has been golf's leading money winner for the past three years, it was his first major championship. His second-round 62 set a new U.S. national tournament record. He has averaged 70 strokes per round in close to 200 rounds of tournament play -a record no U.S. golfer has ever approached...
Critics of the War Service Information Bureau have often been disgruntled 4-F's, misfits, or hale and hearty specialists who believed that they could contribute more in a technical position than they could as a draftee. These men were dissatisfied with the Bureau at first because they felt that it held no information applicable to them, and in most respects their position was justified. The problem of the perfect physical specimen has now been reduced by the establishment of various Army and Navy reserve enlistment programs, and the specialist in the sciences can find any number of openings either...
...Died. Hale Rice Hamilton, 62, veteran actor, the original Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Hollywood. He was the brother of John D. M. Hamilton, ex-chairman of the Republican National Committee...
...Hale, G. C., Jr.; Hall, W. P.; Hamlen, W. T.; Harding, E. H.; Hoeprich, P. D.; Holland, D. T.; Houston, P. K., Jr.; Hubbell...