Word: lewes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though effective in spots, the play of the Stahlmen was generally of the upper bracket high school variety; fast breaks, sharp passes, and accurate shooting were entirely absent. The only elements even resembling Grade A basketball were the work of Lew Desci as pivot man and John Gantt's smooth one hand push shooting from the corners...
...Lew Desci, another more-than-six-footer, will handle the center spot with some assistance from Gantt. Despite his height, Desci has looked fast and tricky under the boards in pre-season practice...
...Magic. Harry Truman had not always taken the conference so seriously. Through late summer and early fall, while it was being planned, he left all the details to Commerce Secretary Henry Wallace and Labor Secretary Lew Schwellenbach. He concentrated his own efforts on finding the magic formula which everybody seemed to think the Government could provide for the wage-price problem...
...Sergeant Lew Ayres, once famed as the screen's lofty and antiseptic Dr. Kildare, now a veteran and still a conscientious objector (though he thinks compulsory military training might be a good idea), got back from the Pacific, where he was a chaplain's assistant with a hospital unit, made first-wave landings -on Leyte and Luzon. His post-discharge plans: perhaps a go at writing, producing or acting in educational and religious movies, "teaching men to understand one another...
Labor Secretary Lew Schwellenbach, who had made a frantic, futile effort to bring Lewis and the coal operators together, got the news from the White House ticker, was charmed into commenting: "Greatly gratified. . . . I hope that other striking elements in industry will follow the footsteps. . . ." President Truman got the news from Lew Schwellenbach, said that he was "very happy...