Word: outdoor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Producers who might be impressed draw the color line. Most of Mabel's public performances have been before astonished passers-by who line Rockefeller Center's outdoor rink, where she occasionally practices. Negro audiences, however, will soon see her in full feather. Mabel Fairbanks last week signed up to skate and star in a full-length, Harlem-financed movie with an all-Negro cast, Sepia Cinderella...
Engaged. Gunder (the Wunder) Hägg, 24, Swedish snatcher of the U.S. outdoor mile record (at 4:05.3); and Dorothy Nortier, 19, blonde attraction of her father's Piedmont, Calif, restaurant; four weeks after Gunder sailed home. He met her when she played the accordion at a Swedish reception given for him in San Francisco...
...remainder of the outdoor season, Freshmen may enter House football, baseball, softball, or volleyball every afternoon at 3:15 o'clock. Freshmen may take out singles for a minor credit two days a week from 10 to 5:30 o'clock. Tennis also counts as a minor sport. Military track is open to undergraduates every afternoon at Soldiers Field...
...warm qualities, too, and they, as much as his sterner attributes, have had to do with his eminence and effectiveness today. In the prewar years, when he had the time, he played a notable game of bridge or poker. He liked to cook outdoor meals for his guests. He was, even to his wife, an engaging conversationalist. One woman said that Ike Eisenhower was the handsomest bald man she had ever...
...Wiedersehen) for Gunder, who has come to like the U.S. (especially malted milk, cowboy clothes and baseball). He had broken three records: world's official two-mile (best time, his own unofficial 8:47.8, set in Sweden last summer), the U.S. 1,500-meter (3:47.8) and U.S. outdoor mile (4:05.3). He began packing to go back to Sweden. There in his absence another runner, his friend, hulking Arne Andersson, had smashed Gunder's mile record with a mark...