Word: lesse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week for the B-29s. Less than 24 hours after the Bermuda crash, two B-29s on a 13-plane training flight from Spokane collided in the midnight sky over Stockton, Calif., fell spinning into the rich peat lands of the San Joaquin River delta. Only three of 21 crew members parachuted to safety. Two days later a rescue plane taking off from Tampa, Fla. to join the Bermuda hunt spouted smoke and flames from its No. 4 engine, swung back to the field but plowed into the tideland muck 500 feet short of the runway. The toll: five dead...
Short Term & Long Term. Less emotional Chinese businessmen have learned to appreciate the advantages of Britain's stable rule in Hong Kong, but this does not keep even anti-Communist Chinese from resenting the traditional discrimination between the ruling class and the ruled. Said one Chinese businessman: "The government policy has mellowed a little recently. Now it may be too late...
...preponderance of baseball players. No less than ten of the athletes discussed are ball players, and come of them, like Hegan and Elliott, just don't merit the attention. Hegan is not a great catcher--he can't hit; Elliott is a mediocre third baseman; and men like Sain and Stephens are dubious choices. Mize, of course, should have been written up many years ago. He belongs to an older school of baseball players...
...because it lacked material. Most of the veterans from last year's squad were hopelessly handicapped by recurrent injuries which slowed them while they played, and often prevented them from playing at all. Yet Valpey had to use these semi-injured players because there was nobody else. Harvard had less depth, fewer able-bodied and capable men, than any of its 1949 opponents. When the first team got hurt, there just weren't any more players. Mean-while Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth, Brown. Columbia, Army and Cornell had two platoons...
...will be bought up and sent to the big Southern schools. Harvard can't get these boys, and Harvard probably doesn't want many of them, for football players should never be allowed to come here unless they can pass entrance exams in equal competition with their less agile contemporaries...