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Immediately after the victory, Jack Hunter '46, the team's mainstay in the hurdle events, was elected captain for this season. Hunter, who won both the high and low hurdles, served for two years in the Army Medical Corps...
Attlee noted that the "tide of nationalism is running very fast in India," that it has spread even to "those wonderful soldiers" who are the mainstay of British forces overseas. He emphasized that the new ministerial mission-Sir Stafford Cripps, Lord Pethick-Lawrence and A. V. Alexander-would have "as free a hand as possible" to make important decisions on the spot. "This is the time, emphatically, for very definite and clear action...
Will Cochran, with a class "A" card from before the war, stands out among the new downhill and slalom prospects, while Al Butler continues in his role as the team's mainstay. Sam King and Hans Estin proved themselves at the Vermont meet the week end before last...
...mainstay of Old Vic repertory, Actor Richardson is currently playing lead in two of its other productions, Arms and the Man and Uncle Vanya. He and his great friend, Actor Olivier, split the big male roles, as a team are unmatched today on the British stage...
...Metropolitan Opera's under-lunged Italian tenor wing has been huffing & puffing, in a vain attempt to bring the house down, ever since 1941. That was when the Met's Swedish mainstay, Jussi Björling, was refused a transit visa to cross Nazi-occupied countries. Björling stayed in Sweden, packed the red and gold Royal Opera House in Stockholm. Last week 34-year-old Tenor Björling reached the U.S. by plane, the first European artist to return to the Met's roster since the war began...