Word: meters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tony Galento, the boxer who walks like a beer barrel, was fined $60 in Orange, N.J., for pushing his right at a cop. The heavyweight saloonkeeper had refused to drop a nickel in a parking meter (and refused to stop shadow-boxing in court...
...prize boys. Don Lindow (No. 1 boy) goes to our prize boys. Don Lindow (No. 1 boy) goes to C.B. outpost on Woodie Island of the Gilbert Group as BuPers sought to satiate his life-long ambition of seeing the strange Raffiesia, the largest flower known, extending one meter in diameter. Don will be in a botanical paradise, 1500 miles from no where--what more can a man ask for these days...
...chief petty officer at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, L.I. to defend the championship he had won for five successive years. The other: gaunt, gazelle-gaited Gunder Hagg (pronounced Hegg), the touted Swedish fireman who was making his U.S. debut in the national 5,000-meter...
Meanwhile, School Board President Vincent S. Sadlowski has been indicted on the charge of having, as Councilman, accepted a bribe from a parking meter company. Last week teachers were struggling to get continuing contracts. The Board showed some signs of backing up, signing up. Tough Hamtramck, although busy in its war plants, happy in its beer gardens, was apparently beginning to resent its newest, if not greatest, local scandal...
...Three Meter Diving...