Word: harrington
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chief looseners are a trio of sailors impersonated by Rags Ragland, Pat Harrington & Frankie Hyers-the last two on leave from Manhattan's locally famed "18 Club," where for some years they have assisted Comedian Jack White in making that institution a sort of petit palais of honky-tonk humor and personal insult. Mr. Porter has worked with funny men before (Victor Moore, Jimmy Durante, Bert Lahr). But never with any so fundamentally low-down funny as these. In Panama Hattie one of them observes to his pal Ragland: "You make more cheap dolls than they do in Japan...
...busses, even longer tank trucks, impressive six-wheelers. New Federals include a square, unstreamlined ¾-ton unit for city deliveries, others up to 20 tons. The radiators on the new Four Wheel Drive hang so far over the front-wheels they appear dangerously near nosing-over. Another giant, Mormon-Harrington, specializes in lumber, petroleum and construction hauling. The revitalized Reo runs from one-and-a-half-ton general-purpose trucks to 34-ton tractor-trailer combinations. Well streamlined, Reo pushed a knifelike hood ahead of the front wheels to achieve bigger loads on the same wheelbase...
Died. WPAdministrator Francis Clark ("Pink") Harrington, 53, onetime Colonel of Army Engineers; week after an operation for an intestinal obstruction; in New London, Conn.; with Harry Hopkins at his bedside...
William Binnian '43 of Cohasset and Weld Hall was announced as winner of the Freshman competition this year and will manage the '43 crew for the Yale races. William A. Atcheley '43 of Holworthy Hall was named his assistant; Frederick W. Harrington '43 of Milton and Robert W. Perkins '43 of Holworthy Hall finished third and fourth...
Nevertheless, the bill sanctioned $975,650,000 for WPA for 1941, authorized the President to spend it within eight months. On that basis, WPA will receive almost if not quite as much as it did last year. The report added that Colonel F. C. Harrington, WPA Administrator, was making efforts to improve the agency. Mrs. Easley and Mrs. Greenberg didn't know about the race tracks and ski jumps. All they knew was that there was not quite enough oleomargarine, not quite enough sardines...