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...stage representing a hayloft. Station WLS's Barn Dance is a corny five-hour jamboree, radio's longest* and oldest in continuous operation, tops in Crossley ratings in its class. Last week this program, begun a week after Station WLS first took to the air and its mainstay ever since, celebrated its 16th birthday...
Bill Shallow, mainstay in the hammer throw, has been forced to go easy in practice because of a slight injury. Although he will take part in Saturday's meet, he has not as yet had sufficient work to reach his top notch form of last year
...good share of its singles matches -- if only the weather will allow some time for practice. The indomitable Chet Legg--Harvard's best dressed athlete--may be counted on to produce good tennis. And southpaw Jack Stewart, equally adopt at both singles and doubles, is another Barnaby mainstay. All these men are seniors...
Tommy Lee, Tony Brudunas, outfielders, and third sacker Mark Hanabury have starting positions sewed up, and Captain Hatch is the mainstay, fixture, etc of the mound staff. But there are several question mark spots in the lineup...
...signed, but the Dail Eireann approved it. Losing his immense popularity overnight, the onetime hero went, with the irreconcilable I. R. A., once again into armed revolt. Ireland counted more dead, among them Rory O'Connor, executed by the Irish Provisional Government and Michael Collins, mainstay for years of the rebellion movement, ambushed and shot by the I. R. A. For two years de Valera hid from not British but Irish forces. Die-hards stood by him through thick & thin, continuing to consider him the genuine President of the Irish Republic...