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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Loose-shouldered Ensign Adolf Kiefer, who began breaking world backstroke records ten years ago, helped Wally Ris build up a top-heavy 46-point team total for the Bainbridge (Md.) Naval Training Center. With strokes to spare, Kiefer copped his pet 150-yd. backstroke event and the 300-yd. individual medley. Cracked 26-year-old Adolf Kiefer to himself when he banged his funny bone against the side of the pool on the last leg of the backstroke: "What am I doing in here anyway? I'm too old for this sort of thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Winter's Last Licks | 4/16/1945 | See Source »

Married. Niles Trammell, 50, shrewd, soft-spoken president of the National Broadcasting Co.; and Cleo Allen Black, 41; both for the second time; in Queenstown, Md., one week after his Reno divorce from Elizabeth Ruth Huff Trammell, 42 (alimony: $1,000 a month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 16, 1945 | 4/16/1945 | See Source »

Married. Lois De Fee, 25, 180-lb., towering (6 ft. 2 in.) Amazon, onetime nightclub bouncer, and Lieut. Hugh M. Roper, A.A.F., 23; she for the fourth time, he for the first; in Annapolis, Md...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 12, 1945 | 2/12/1945 | See Source »

...raising the bulls that topped the Angus mark, Herefordmen had a Westerner to thank-Dan Thornton of Gunnison, Colo., who took home a total of $200,000 from cattle sales. Motorman Edward F. Fisher of Detroit and Banker Richard C. Riggs of Catonsville, Md...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Range Royalty | 1/29/1945 | See Source »

...felt better. He stood up, fingering the tip of the fountain pen. A passing tank carried him to the battalion aid station. There the surgeon stared at the queer arrangement in his neck and sent him on. Next stop was the clearing station, where Captain David Dunn of Westminster, Md. removed the pen top, put in a regular tracheotomy tube (which the air passes through, not around, as in the case of the makeshift wedge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Well, I'll Be Damned | 12/11/1944 | See Source »

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