Word: knee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Orleans, sunned in Galveston. Florida's coastal resorts were just opening up, thanks to Henry M. Flagler's Florida East Coast Railway. Daytona Beach was the tourist center. Miami Beach and Palm Beach did not yet exist. Only adventuresome women dared to bathe, clad in knee-length, pantalooned dresses, corsets, and beach shoes...
Coach Hal Ulen will use his normal lineup, with the slim possibility that Bob Tolf will swim the 440-yard freestyle. Dick Fouquet has filled in behind Doug Kinney since Tolf injurel his knee during Christmas vacation...
Since Olympic weights will be used in the tournament, Lee is entered at 125 and Chandler at 160. Lee has recovered from a knee injury which kept him out of the Army meet and the Boston "Y" tourney last Saturday...
...other divisions, Dave Smith placed second at 155 and Pete Hathaway was a runner-up at 175. Smith sustained a slight knee injury in the semi-finals and ceded first place to the winner of the other semi-final round...
Gifts are coming Casa Verdi's way. Arturo Toscanini, 83, who knew Verdi and worships him, has been helping to pay some of the bills. Last week he sent another check, for $8,000. And that was just the beginning. Disabled with an ailing knee since last fall, Toscanini had recovered enough last week to get down to serious rehearsal, with soloists, chorus and the NBC Symphony, for his first conducting in six months: an anniversary performance of the Requiem. Carnegie Hall (at a top of $25 a seat) was already almost sold out. That would...