Word: jerseys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...State of New Mexico went to Federal Court last week to stop the U.S. Government from grabbing any more of its land. This time it was the U.S. Army which wanted full title to a chunk of New Mexico almost as big as New Jersey - the 7,200-square-mile White Sands Proving Ground area for guided missiles...
This week in Chicago, I.B.C. puts on its second big show (Jersey Joe Walcott v. Ezzard Charles). Tongue-in-cheek sport-writers have been touting it as the "slightly" heavyweight championship. Said Boxing Director Louis, squelching a rumor that he might give up promoting and make a ring comeback: "Promoting don't pay as well as fightin', but it lasts longer...
...Lionel de Jersey Harvard Studentship, which provides for a year's study at Cambridge University, England, has been won by David E. McGiffert '49 of Chicago, III. McGiffert has concentrated in history at Harvard, and was a member of the Varsity basketball squad and Chairman of the Eliot House Committee...
Kansas City, Missouri, George C. Dilion, of J. A. Bruening Co.; Allentown, Pennsylvania, Donald Miller, of Call-Chronicle Newspapers, Inc.; and Newark, New Jersey, Carleton E. Hammond, of Fiedlity Union Trust...
...Garden State Park, N.J., chestnut Palestinian won the $50,000-added Jersey Stakes, the race-of-the-week for colts, beating pace-making Olympia. His time for the mile and a quarter, 24 4/5, broke the track record set by Citation in 2:03 in the same race last year...