Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are fewer than 500 teletypesetter perforators in the world, and none of them control such remote printings as TIME'S. TIME has seven machines and nine men to keep them operating. Most of them work a two-day, 20-hour week teletypesetting, and spend the rest of their time on allied production jobs. One has to put up at a nearby hotel on Tuesday to be on hand for late news breaks...
...first Roman Catholic chaplains to volunteer for service overseas in the first weeks of the war, in which he rolled up a distinguished record. In 5½ years overseas, he took the route marches of the famed "Van Doos" (the Royal 22nd Regiment) in stride, spent nine months in the lines in Italy, then almost a year in France, Belgium, Holland and Germany. Colonel Roy finished the war as chief Roman Catholic padre. Dispatches mentioned his "extremely courageous conduct"; he received the Order of the British Empire...
...hours later, when all the clubbing and drubbing was over, the college boys had bowed to the clubmen. The flashiest player on the field was not a collegian or a graduate, but 17-year-old Billy Hooper, who looked out of place among his nine older Mount Washington teammates, but was right at home in the tussling. Hooper made half of his team's goals, scored the point that broke a tie 2½ minutes before the game's end. Score: Mount Washington 6, Johns Hopkins...
Died. James Evershed Agate, 69, bumptiously witty, self-centered (his nine-volume autobiography is entitled Ego) cotton-mill owner who tired of working with calico ("hating every yard of it"), became one of Britain's top literary, cinema and drama critics (the London Daily Express and Sunday Times); of a heart attack; in London...
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