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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bethlehem, Pa., home of steel mills and wrestlers, starts its big weekend of the year today, for all the top Eastern Collegiate muscle talent has come to town to decide the 1948 wrestling titles. With home-town Lehigh University as the defending champions, the 44th Annual Championships, with 16 teams entered, rate the climax spot of the grappling season...
...Moscow, a 33-year-old Clairton, Pa. girl named Annabella Bucar announced that she had been secretly married to a Russian singer, quit her job in the U.S. Embassy to become a Soviet housewife. Back in the U.S. her father, an Austrian immigrant, immediately disowned...
TIME gave the circumstances of his death: "Mr. Coolidge sat talking with Secretary Ross-about the Plymouth place, last year's pa'tridge shooting, hay fever. ... He evened up the pens on the desk. He went 'down cellar,' watched the furnace man shovel coal. About noon he disappeared upstairs, presumably to shave, as so many New Englanders do about midday...
...Chicks. If there was, tough old John C. Kehoe wasn't saying. Son of a coal miner, he picked slate in Pennsylvania's hard-coal country for 45^ a day. As a boy, instead of shooting marbles, he was fighting game chicks-against other kids in Pittston, Pa. He became the hard-fisted political boss of Luzerne County and owner of half a dozen coal mines, but never gave up cockfighting. The big difference between Kehoe and the 150,000 other people who fight roosters in the U.S. is that he crows about...
...north, where law enforcement is stricter and the S.P.C.A. more vigilant, public pits do not advertise, but they operate at Wheeling, W.Va., Saratoga Springs, N.Y., Wilmington, Del., Wilkes-Barre, Pa. and Frederick, Md. (where a cockfight was hijacked and its patrons reportedly robbed of almost $500,000). Across the South, big illegal pits run wide open, from Pass Christian, Miss, to Clovis, N.Mex...