Word: jump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Against Tufts in the first meet, the Varsity and Freshmen together copped 21 firsts and a large number of seconds and thirds. The Varsity took firsts in all the field events except for the broad jump, and walked off with clean sweeps in the shotput, hammer throw, and polo vault...
Tonight the Big Red will face practically the same lineup they bowed before last year. Ed Buckley and Bud Finegan will again man the guard posts, Ed Rothschild will jump at center, and Joe Romano will again be at forward. Only forward "Chick" Lutz, replacing last season's captain, Franny Simpson, will be a newcomer to meet the Cornell squad...
...Crimson snow troops last year, profited by a short session of skiing in Alaska last summer and is in tip-top condition now. Also a superb stylist, "Glacial Tom" can enter four events, but will probably stick to the downhill and slalom, although he may venture into the jump if needed. John Abbot was the fastest downhill man at Stowe, and has probably earned himself a place on the Varsity if he does as well in the slalom...
After Stalin's Purge, the Nazi-Soviet Pact, Russia's grab of half of Poland, 1940 betrayed the full nature of Stalin's hand with the attack on Finland, the seizure of part of Rumania, and all of the Baltic States. Fellow travelers began to jump off the train. Promptly Comrade V. J. Jerome the Party's Führer for the U. S. Intellectuals, wrote a pamphlet (Intellectuals and the War) tearing his old friends to pieces. Jerome said his erstwhile friends were just capitalist stooges anyway. They "came like arrogant slummers . . . looked upon...
...Alley always keeps only a jump behind the international situation. The preoccupation of songwriters with U. S. patriotism put three flag-waving songs on Variety's best-selling list.* The assault on England has boosted A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square to No. 3 on the list. But the fall of France has inspired the best tune: The Last Time I Saw Paris, by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II. Not yet a bestseller, this song was well on its way last week. Kate Smith had had exclusive radio rights to it for six weeks. There were half...