Word: holders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Indoor Blaze. The band was not through. Before the two-mile race, it struck up the Belgian national anthem-for balding, ruddy-faced Gaston Reiff, Olympic 5,000-meter record holder. It was a jockeying race from the start: first, Philadelphia's Curt Stone took the lead, then FBI man Fred Wilt, then Sweden's Erik Ahlden, then Reiff, then Stone, then Reiff. The Belgian, running with a choppy, high-knee action and occasionally dropping his arms to rest, fought off three challengers in the last quarter mile, finished in a blazing 8:56.1. It was the fastest...
...outraged howls that rose from Detroit's city rooms, Toy (known as "Headline Harry") replied that a press-card holder "gets in not only to fires, but to waterworks and the like. There are methods of internal attack. In the event of a war with Russia, attacks internally will be followed by a beachhead in Detroit...
...neither read nor seen "Richard III" prior to Monday night and consequently my approach to this interpretation may have benefited from lack of prejudice as much as it suffered from lack of tutoring. The management has supplied each ticket-holder with a simplified genelogical chart of the Houses of Lancaster and York, along with a short history of England in Richard's time, but I found the play still hopelessly confusing to follow. This would be of no importance if the play contained enough compensating poetry, but it is a procession of blood and rhetoric, both a little too thick...
Every morning, promptly at 5:30, a burst of gunfire rattles the Colonia Juarez section of Mexico City. Old Don Carlos Rincon Gallardo y Romero de Torreros, Grandee of Spain, Marquis of Guadalupe, Duke of Regla, holder of 15 knighthoods, member of the Royal Corps of Gentlemen of Nobility of Madrid, last commander of President Porfirio Diaz' rurales,* is still waging symbolical battle against the Revolution...
...other events the Crimson shows considerable strength. The dashes are strong with John Spivak, Dave Carter, and Thayer; Bud Lockett and Bill Lawrence are working at the pole vault; Don Trimble, the holder of the University record in the javelin, and Jerry Kanter, will put the shot; George Kumpel, Thayer, and Carter are strong in the broad jump; and John Cogan, Joe Leeming, Dick Welch, Joe Rosen, and Dick White give depth in the distance runs...