Word: heights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russia's chief delegate to the United Nations. Few passengers knew that he had been aboard. Cornered in his cabin, he told ship news reporters: "I am Malik, I am glad to meet you, but I have no comment." A sandy-haired, broad-shouldered man of medium height, Malik had been well schooled in Russia's robot diplomacy. He had served as Russia's wartime ambassador to Japan, most recently as deputy foreign minister for Far Eastern Affairs. What comment did he have on the Wallace-Stalin letters? He had not read them. Did he have...
...George Eiferman, 22, an awesome mass of sun-cured muscle, won the A.A.U.'s annual "Mr. America" contest in Los Angeles' Shrine Civic Auditorium. The judges thought Eiferman, an ex-Navy man and trumpet player, had a better build than twelve other bubble-biceped youths. Height: 5 ft. 9 in.; weight: 197 lbs.; chest: normal 47½ in., expanded 50 in.; waist: 30½ in.; biceps...
Died. Viola Allen, 78, turn-of-the-century stage favorite; in Manhattan. She made a hit in Shakespeare in the '80s, eventually played in almost everything, was a Charles Frohman stock company star and leading lady to Joseph Jefferson, retired in 1918 at the height of her popularity...
...they were bullets, though often enough when they land they seem more like spitballs. Occasionally, to show he knows his way around a dictionary (or beyond it), he tosses in a word like "propliopithecustian." But most of the time he sticks to the literary method which assumes that the height of human expression can be reached in a monosyllabic grunt...
Pole vault--Tie for first among Torrey (H), Lockett (H), and Lawrence (H); 4, Austin (HC). Height: 12 feet...