Word: lastly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Game Hunter Osa Johnson announced that she will take along her mother, frail, silver-haired Mrs. Belle Lieghty, 73, of Chanute, Kans., on her next hunting trip into the wilds of Africa early in 1950. Their goal: bagging a gorilla to take the place of famed Gargantua, who died last month in Florida...
...Please-no more," pleaded Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman, who found his mail loaded with paperweights after the newspapers ran a story last month saying that he collected the things as a hobby. Among the whatnots he was sent by well-wishers: a weighted mahogany gavel, a glass basin filled with coins, a porcelain pig, a bronze nude in a bronze bathtub...
Notre Dame went to Texas last week expecting to wind up a perfect season in a blaze of touchdowns. Instead, in Dallas' Cotton Bowl, it was all but charged off its All-America feet by a fiery, accurate Southern Methodist team, minus its injured star Doak Walker but brilliantly led by Halfback Kyle Rote, that fought as if it were defending the Alamo...
...yards through the line and around the ends, pitched ten passes for 146 yards, scored three touchdowns. After his third score it took all of Notre Dame's All-America power to grind out one more Irish touchdown and go ahead, 27-20. Even then, in the last minutes of the game, Coach Matty Bell's men began to roll downfield again in a 67-yd. drive that was halted only on the Irish 4-yd. line...
...Last week stone-throwing Bill Bingham found out what it was like to live in a glass house. Harvard had finished the most calamitous season on record (one victory, eight defeats), and the Boston press was having a field day. Wrote Bill Cunningham in the Herald: ". . . Harvard still thinks of herself as a national power when, as a matter of fact, she's only the champion of Middlesex County, and that only ... because she didn't meet Arlington High School...