Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Coach Valpey and his assistants returned to Cambridge early this month, they found Soldiers Field scorched and baked to a perfect hardness for breaking bones...
...Perfect Creases. In the other bracket, breezing through his first five rounds, Frank Stranahan ran into Ray Billows in the quarterfinal. A big partisan crowd trailed the two golfers around the 6,617-yd. course. One of Bachelor Stranahan's pretty fans had no trouble predicting the winner. Said she, loud enough for the players to hear: "Frankie's pants have perfect creases. That other guy looks like a bum." Replied Billows affably: "Lady, I've got a nicely pressed suit in my locker -and I'll wear it tomorrow in my semifinal match." Stranahan...
...fight, all I can do is to make a profit"). He plunges into the black market and secret deals with the Axis, is snared by an avaricious blonde whose mind is as corrupt as his, and finds in the world's agony the perfect opportunity to snatch more pleasures. At war's end, Grant, aged and decayed, passes out with fright at the unexpected appearance of an old friend whom he had cheated years back. Grant's hallucinatory harangues, much like the buzzing of a neurotic bumblebee, are recorded by Miss Stead in unsparing detail. To expect...
...Tootsie"), who joined the team after finishing college, in 1941, now does all the designing. Last week the sisters had a new number they thought exciting: a Page Boy convertible. A few simple alterations transform it into a stylish post-maternity dress. Tootsie, recently married and pregnant, made the perfect model...
Dogged, deliberate Quist beat the erratic No. 2 Czech, Vladimir Cernik, with little trouble, 6-2, 13-11, 6-0. Then wiry little Billy Sidwell, 28, went up against Jaroslav Drobny, 27, Europe's best. Billy's backhand was in perfect control, and he tantalized the left-handed Czech with frequent line placements on his left side. Between sets, Sidwell sat down to catch his breath, keeping Drobny waiting, and picked himself up with great deliberation whenever he slipped on the dewy grass. Uncharitable spectators figured that the Australian was just grandstanding; but insiders knew that Sidwell...