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...labor get-together in Oslo, British Guest Mark Hewitson, M.P. for Hull, recalled some of the bonds between Norway and Britain. "As Ah look around your coontry," said Yorkshireman Hewitson",'"Ah see a whole lot o' things that recall the visits which your Viking ancestors made to ma coontry many centuries ago. And y' know a lot o' your lads -refugees like-came over to us during t' war. Naow, Ah'm a dalesman (living in England's northern valleys) masen. Ah believe that Ah've got a whole...
Known to Gold Coasters since 1934 as "Ma," Mrs. Reardon will retire at the end of the term in June. She is currently assistant captain of the dining hall staff...
General Hu had to abandon Yenan to save his northern flank. Then he raced westward to hold the Szechuan passes. An urgent call to roly-poly Governor Ma Hung-kwei of Ninghsia Province brought him two divisions of tough Moslem caval ry. In one of the Nationalists' few well-executed maneuvers, the Reds were boxed by superior force and fire power near Pao-chi, a river crossing on the way to Szechuan...
That night there was a council of war in the Arcaro home. Ma was willing to let Eddie give horse racing a try; Pa was dead against it. Ma won. Eddie began to gallop horses for Tom McCaffery, who paid him $15 a week and swore he'd never make a jockey. Eddie used to cry over the belittling he got. At 15 he was in Agua Caliente, broke and homesick, when he finally won his first race, on a four-year-old maiden named Eagle Bird. Then he drove up to Tanforan, Calif., to take a job with Clarence...
Another time, his ma said to him: "Gee whiz, Eddie, I could use a few dollars. Why don't you tell me how these races are coming out?" Said he: "If jockeys knew how races were coming out, Mom, they'd all be millionaires...