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What had bitten Boston was the news that last year's winners, Kee Yong Ham, Kil Yoon Song and Yun Chil Choi, had been granted temporary deferments and were training for the marathon near Pusan. The Boston American published a smoking editorial headlined, WHO Is TRAINING FOR WHAT? and ran a picture layout of U.S. soldiers marching through the snow with the caption, BOSTONIANS TRAINING FOR KOREA...
...into the kitchen of his one-story ranch house, and sat down to lunch "Well Mom," said Graves to his pretty red-haired wife, "here we are with mor'n half a million in the bank, and look what we're eatin'." In the bowl were ham hocks and lima beans. Graves had just been paid $505,039.33, one of the biggest checks ever made out to an individual cattleman, for his herd of more than 2,000 catte sold at Denver's livestock market. It was Graves's last roundup and the biggest deal...
...building on Marysville's main street, and he was greeted by a cheerful receptionist who readily took him in to see the illicit station's five owners and operators. General Manager Gene Kirby, 19, admitted, with modest pride, that WKGR had "just grown" from a ham station he had built in his family's backyard garage five years ago, when the general manager was 14. His transmitter, from a beat-up B17, had been bought at an Arrny surplus sale. In December, when the owners decided to go on the air commercially, Station Engineer John McCarter...
...John Seldon (M) defeated John Rauk 15-8, 7-15, 15-12, 16-15. The '54 squad still had a chance when Matt Reynolds (H) defeated Ed Fay 16-15, 15-10, 15-8. But, in the last set, Dave Jeffries (M) defeated Ham Forster 11-15, 15-12, 15-9, 9-15, 15-10, to win the match...
...wandering minstrel, or even a poet?-pitched his tent on Broadway last week. The show he proceeded to put on-The Lady's Not for Burning (see above)-made the very neon signs flush with youthful colors; the street's familiar smells of cheap popcorn and theatrical ham were overblown with a strangely innocent perfume. In the midst of the prosaic November which for decades has frozen the English-speaking stage, poetic roses were all at once in bloom...