Word: jon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cool Jon Spivak has developed over night into what Jaakko has been looking for in the dashes for the past five years. Under the guidance of University 220 record-holder Doug Pirnie, who now coaches the Freshmen and helps out with the Varsity sprinters, Spivak should get even better...
Mike Foot, who replaced Managing Editor Jon Kimche, hopes to settle it favorably. As "joint editor" with Mrs. Evelyn Anderson, a veteran Tribune wheelhorse, Foot hopes to spice up the critical columns, open up the pages to more young hopefuls. He also wants to build up Tribune's lively, intelligent, often acidulous handling of U.S. affairs. And he is anxious to lift what he calls the iron curtain between the U.S. and British labor movements...
...placed an iron mop in the hands of Ana Pauker, its No. 1 Rumanian Communist, and Ana was busy mopping up. A fortnight ago, the leaders of the liberal National Peasant Party had been arrested (TIME, July 28). Aging (74) ex-Premier Juliu Maniu was in Malmaison Prison. Jon Mihalache had been moved to the cellar of the Ministry of Interior. Last week a rubber-stamp parliament outlawed the National Peasant Party, Rumania's majority party (70% of voters...
...hunter's stray bullet forced down Hollywood Hero Jon Hall's private plane, and Hall rose to the occasion. The bullet had just missed him, he told the breathless press. "You'd think the war was still on," he added.* With him, said Hall, was his blues-singing wife, Frances Langford. The publicity was wonderful. Next day it was not so wonderful. Pressed for details, Hall finally confessed that neither he nor his wife had been in the plane at the time. Said he: "I wish this would be forgotten. Too much fuss has been made...
...first heat of yesterday's wherry event started out with four men. In addition to Judkins and Turner, there were Fred Hafka of Leverett House and Jon Cavarnos, unattached. But when the four closely-bunched wherries had traveled half the distance, an un-identified half the distance, an un-identified single scull with a middle-aged oarsman at the sweeps joined the race and rowed easily in his trim craft beside the leading, but more clumsy wherry...