Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...partner of Owen J. Roberts, is the McLeans' right-hand man, gets along famously with their staffers as well. His sights are already set on the first objective in the Bulletin's second century: finding newsprint for the new Sunday edition (circ. 650,000 after only nine weeks' existence) to compete with Walter Annenberg's Sunday Inquirer...
...kept U.S. correspondents panting with a dizzy round of sightseeing tours. Forty of them inspected the Kremlin (BUT NARY A GANDER AT JOE, headlined the New York Daily News). Side trips to Leningrad, Stalingrad and other cities were coming up. And a wide-eyed party was escorted through the nine-story plant of Pravda, Russia's biggest (circ. 2,500,000) newspaper...
Died. Stanley Grafton Mortimer, 56, socially prominent, internationally famed amateur racquets star, thrice winner of the coveted Tuxedo Gold Racquet, four times national champion, nine times national doubles champion (with Clarence C. Pell), recognized as one of the top six U.S. racquets players of all time; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...have been foolish to withdraw in a high-minded huff merely out of distaste for Darlans and Lavals. Langer says that Vichy's North African governor, General Maxime Weygand, "was just as intent as we on excluding the Germans from North Africa and blocking any program of collaboration." Nine months before the U.S. went to war with Germany, the U.S. agreed to ship Weygand limited supplies of coal, sugar, tea, etc. In return, Weygand let U.S. vice consuls work with French Resistance leaders and report in cipher to Washington. In this and other ways the ground was prepared...
Philip J. Darlington, Jr. '34, curator of coleoptera at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Saunders MacLane, professor of Mathematics, and Garrett Birkhoff '32, professor of Mathematics, are among the nine Massachusetts teachers and artists to obtain grants for work in their fields...