Word: miche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tough, pink-cheeked Charles Erwin Wilson, 50, new president of General Motors, went skating at his country home in Oakland County, Mich., fell and broke his hip. Muttered Motorsman Wilson, preparing to do business for a while from his hospital bed: "It was just one of those skating accidents. I slipped...
...BENNETT Escanaba, Mich...
Spiked last week were two alibis for not going to church. At Goldsboro, N. C., where his flock pleaded shabby clothes, a Negro preacher set one Sunday a month when he and the menfolk will come in overalls, the women in calico. At Sturgis, Mich., where laggards pleaded lack of transportation, the Church of the Nazarene bought...
Oldest shuffler was 82-year-old Edward Ranney, retired postal clerk from Kenmore, N. Y. Youngest was 17-year-old Dick Townsend of Grand Ledge, Mich. But the player who attracted the largest crowd was Open Champion Dwight K. Hubbard, 51, of Janesville, Wis. Champion Hubbard, onetime football coach, has been shuffling for ten years, has won the national championship six times. He already has more medals and ribbons than he can shake a shuffle-stick at. At week's end, it looked as if he might win another-if it would ever stop raining in Florida...
Winner of the grand prize of $50 was B. E. Robinson, of Birmingham Ala., for an essay on "Chauning's Causes for the Fall of the Confederacy". Three others were presented with checks for $25 by Mr. Malone: Arthur Devaney, of Saginaw, Mich.. for an essay on "Emerson: the Summum Bonum and the Style": J. C. Rulley, of Washington, D.C., who wrote on "Proletarian Literature in the United States": and J. D. Grandine, of Crandon, Wis., whose essay was on "The Failure of Cotton Diplomacy during the Civil War." Two other yearlings were given Honorable Mention in the contest...