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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vandenberg spoke with wit and without rancor. He paid good-natured tribute to Harry Truman as "the most famous one-man tornado in the history of political hurricanes," twitted him for spending "six soap-box months telling the American people how the Republicans had ruined them," then opening his message to Congress with: ". . . the State of the Union is good...
...strategy paid off. "Carman's performance was the best job we've had at defense all winter," Chase remarked after the game. Since the Dartmouth contest, the entire team picked up aggressiveness and speed, improved its passing and defense, and won its next three games. The last of those was Saturday night's 11 to 0 shutout over Army...
...another impulse, he paid 90,000 francs for Chabas' innocuous and notorious September Morn. Now, with many of his best pieces farmed out,* he lives in Lisbon's tiny, luxurious Hotel Aviz, also has a palatial home in Paris and another in London. He has no art scouts, does all his purchasing by himself, or on the advice of a few trusted dealers. National Gallery officials would say nothing of Gulbenkian himself last week except that he was "extremely modest" and "a real connoisseur": one of the conditions of the loan was that there must be no personal...
Because of such players as George Mikan, pro basketball is gradually taking on a big-league glow. The Basketball Association of America is a twelve-city circuit, playing to enthusiastic crowds from Manhattan's Madison Square Garden to St. Louis' Arena. Its stars get paid as much as $17,500 for a 20-week season. Like Mikan, most of the big-name basketball pros come out of topflight collegiate ranks...
Stockholders, who thought the rainy day had arrived, last spring clamored that the money should be spent for dividends. Curtiss-Wright paid out $17,000,000 but the stockholders were not quieted. Still faced with rebellion, Vaughan upped himself to board chairman two months ago, raised Wright Aeronautical Vice President William C. Jordan to president and asked Investment Banker Paul V. Shields to help him put some new life into the company. Last week the new life came in-and Curtiss-Wright got one of the biggest shakings-up of its 30-year career...