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...services of high-scoring forward Wyndol Gray, the Varsity basketball team scored a smashing upset over a highly-touted Quonset Naval Air Station outfit, and then went on to swamp Boston University for the second time. In so doing, it proved beyond any doubt that it is not a one-man team, but a talented and well-integrated machine which more than deserves its reputation as the best in Crimson history...
Major Arthur Wermuth, famed "One-Man Army" of Bataan, announced that in Michigan he would be a candidate for the U.S. Senate. In Manila one Olivia Josephine Oswald, shapely Filipina, announced that she was Mrs. Arthur Wermuth, sued for an annulment (and 200 pesos a month). He had married her, said she, on the roof of a Manila hotel in 1941; as parti i evidence she produced a group photo of herself, the one-man army, and another couple. She called it a wedding-day picture. Major Wermuth, married to a U.S. girl since 1935, called it just a picture...
...took just three minutes to pull ahead of the Crimson, Walt McCurdy's basket making the score 47 to 46. They kept their lead--ranging from one to five point's margin--until the last two minutes of play, when a tap-in by Lew Decsi plus two foul shots and one field goal by Gray put the Cantabs back into the game; then the former Bowling Green ace put on a one-man freezing act to put the game...
...tiny Hampton (pop. 800), stiff-backed Thomas Estey Ryder, a retired World War I colonel, tramped up & down the elm-lined main street on a one-man job survey. Prospects for Hampton's returning veterans, he discovered, were dim. But chatting with townfolk, he got an idea...
...Pacific, even at Christmas time. We are dreadfully busy. She translates my books. I paint. She makes carpenter work. We look like pigs running around." Lehmann's fourth book, More Than Singing, is in its second printing, and her paintings (landscapes, portraits, opera scenes) were displayed in a one-man show in November 1944. ("A man called up and wanted to buy one of the paintings. I was so overwhelmed I wanted to give it to him. My friend said, 'Lotte, don't be so unprofessional.' He paid $50 for it, poor man...