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...were for hockey coaches for high schools which had games the next weekend. Mayor Sullivan and his brother, John, however, opportunely stepped in and agreed to act as coaches. The two were smilingly pictured in Boston papers as they awkwardly fondled hockey sticks, although it was considered a good omen by the opposition that the Sullivan Brothers lost their games...
...bitter, sleety day in Moscow last week, as ailing Japanese Premier Hatoyama climbed gingerly into a Soviet limousine, he asked the Russian chauffeur: "Is the weather a bad omen for the talks...
...Reider and Norris on, all ran their best races of the season. Ralph Perry, who finished second, knocked 25 seconds off his best previous time, while the third finisher, Dick Wharton, knocked a full minute from his. Sophomores Bill Thompson and Mac Brown both continued their steady improvement, an omen which augurs well for the future. Thompson, who placed fourth, ran 50 seconds better than his previous best, while fifth finisher Brown did 34 seconds faster...
...whose five sons died young, left to no one their remarkable gusto for such a role. One of Sarah's more enterprising daughters formed a liaison with a "low poet" of the Restoration named Congreve, and the son she bore died a hopeless drunkard. This was an omen perhaps of the centuries the family would lie fallow until another Churchill, half American by blood (great-great-great-great-great-great-grandson of John and Sarah), would rise to rally and astonish the Western world...
...investors began to pay more heed to good news at home rather than bad news from abroad, the Dow-Jones industrials jumped 5.62 points in the first trading session after Labor Day, one of the biggest gains in months. Wall Streeters took the upswing as a bright omen: the market after Labor Day has often forecast the trend for months to come; e.g., the wartime bull market ended in the week after Labor Day in 1946, the Eisenhower bull market started in late September 1953. The average closed the week at 506.76 v. 502.04 the week before...