Word: packed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...harsh and gaudy school. At 19, Jack Campbell got a $6-a-week reporter's job on the San Francisco Chronicle, and covered the Barbary Coast when there was at least one good murder story every week. After one man was kidnaped and shot, Campbell hired a pack of bloodhounds and set out to follow the bloodstains. When the dogs yelped their way to a house, Campbell burst in the door and found a woman nursing a nosebleed. But after this false start, Campbell scooped Jack London, reporting for the rival Examiner, by fishing the victim's severed...
...Memphis, Traffic-Safety Expert Forrest Mottweiler explained to the ambulance driver why he had crashed into a concrete post: he had fallen asleep at the wheel. In Los Angeles, William V. Mendenhall of Angeles National Forest Service was checking plans for the annual fire-prevention campaign when the pack of matches he was carrying in his hip pocket set his trousers afire. In Baltimore, Kinsey H. Dillon was indicted for evading payment of $4,819 in income taxes for 1945-46, the same years he was employed as a government auditor to check reports of income-tax evasion...
Same Old Faces. On the pro circuit things hadn't changed much since 1946. Most of the men who had dominated tournament play when Nelson left were still on top. At the end of the winter circuit, dapper Lloyd Mangrum, 34, led the pack in prize money (with $9,707); close on his heels in second place (with $9,110) was Sam Snead, 36, the country boy from the Allegheny Mountains of Virginia...
Theodore I. Anderson '51 led a pack of almost 30 pedallers yesterday to win the Wellesley bike race and first prize of a Schwinn bicycle. A strong headwind slowed down all contenders, and Anderson's time of 40 minutes was well above the record of 28 1/2 minutes...
...Union (Class of 52): Malcolm G. Armstrong, Richard T. Button, Theodore O. Cron, A. Holmes Fetherolf Davis S. Fine, Calus P. R. Gossels, William H. Holden, albert J. Klingel, John Lowis, Benhamin F. MacDonald, Robert D. Mohlman, John G. Mercy, Edward P. Morrissey, Charles E. Nelson, Daniel I. Pack, Chase N. Peterson, Harvey Robinson, Costas C. Rodis, Richard m. Sandler John J. Shea, Charles W. Sullivan Elhanen C. Stone, Robert B. Thompson, William J. T. Willis...