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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Later in the day, he did better. His 20.7 time in the 220 was a new track record. But Patton, ex-G.L, father of one child and the big U.S. hope for the Olympics, barely heard the announcement. He was behind a stack of sawdust bags being sick, as he is after every race. "It's a damn hard day's work," he said...
Absent from the Great Critics sessions was the sage of Baltimore, Critic H. L. Mencken. But over a beer, Mencken peppered the visitors with a shakerful of critical opinions. Sample: "The thing about Theodore Dreiser always was his enormous unintelligence. He reached heights of unintelligence as great as any of the heights of intelligence that Aristotle achieved...
...Members of John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers lost more than $100,000,000 in wages...
...steel industry suffered a production loss estimated at 900,000 tons of ingots (equal to about 675,000 tons of finished steel). With about one-third of the 400,000 soft-coal miners still out, awaiting the court decision on John L. Lewis (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Iron Age estimated that the loss will reach 1,400,000 tons before normal production could possibly be resumed...
Fogg Museum's latest and largest gift, $2,000,000 worth of priceless art objects from the collection of Grenville L. Winthrop '86, has finally been completely catalogued five years after the 1943 bequest...