Word: miche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard Club of Michigan; Peter A. Jenks, Walled Lake, Mich...
Died. Dr. Frederick N. Bonine, 77, towering (6 ft. 4 in.) athlete who in 1885 did the 100-meter dash in 10.8 seconds-a record that stood for 15 years until broken by F. W. Jarvis; in Niles, Mich. A popular cut-rate eye specialist in Niles, he made no appointments, charged $2 for the first visit, $1 thereafter, took his patients from a queue that usually extended half a city block from his drab little office above a drugstore. He once estimated that in 38 years he had treated 1,500,000 cases...
...Most. Excellent Order of the British Empire to gaunt, nerveless Victoria Drummond, 42. a British Fascist Oswald Mosley, interned in London's Brixton Prison, began taking German lessons. / / Antanas Smefona, self-exiled President of Lithuania, discovered living with his wife in a log cabin near Benton Harbor, Mich., is still ecstatic over America's good roads and standard of living. / / Private Hank Greenberg shone in close order drill and calisthenics, won a promotion to corporal. / / Soviet Composer Dmitri Shostakovich (Lady Macbeth of Mzensk) went to work in Leningrad as a fire fighter. / / The public library of Southport, England...
...letter, whose 57 signatures took up much more space than its text, was delivered to the Army's Adjutant General in Washington. Wrote the citizens of Monroe County, Mich.: "Please permit Private Prochaska to return home. The grain now is ripening and he is the only one in these parts who can run a threshing machine...
...Hollywood's Johnny Weissmuller still holds one world's record: 51 sec. flat for 100 yards (free-style), set at Ann Arbor, Mich...