Word: picking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This group, which hopes to pick up where it left off last Saturday at the Nonagonals, includes Harvard's 1-2 punch in the 16-pound hammer throw, Jack Fisher and Sam Felton; Captain Wes Flint in the high and low hurdles; Freshman javelin find, Don Trimble; pole vaulters Pete Harwood and Bill Lawrence; high jumper Gene Harrigan; Bill Jackson, who will put the shot and double in the discuss with Felton; Captain-elect Frank Gurley in the mile; and Ted Withington, whose 49-second anchor leg last Saturday convinced Jaakko that he was capable of meeting IC4A 440 competition...
...records, scored a Broadway show (Beggar's Holiday) and was an early invader of now easily invaded Carnegie Hall. Despite all these achievements, he likes to appear indolent. Says he: "My idea of a vacation is just to go home, lie in the bed, if the phone rings pick it up and tell them I don't feel like it." Some of his critics bemoan his constant concertizing in recent years, and the pretentious kind of symphonic jazz he has written for Carnegie Hall (New World A'Comin'; The Deep South'). But the Duke insists...
...worked at keeping out unintelligible Britticisms and is careful with American slang. He has upped his annual publicity budget from ?250,000 to ?1,000,000. He has borrowed Hollywood stars to reflect glory on his own stars in British pictures. He has sent his own stars to pick up more reflected glory in Hollywood films...
Riding in on Cornell's sweep-wash last Saturday doesn't exactly humble Tom Bolles' previously unbeaten Varsity crew. By finishing second on Lake Cayuga--instead of winning their third straight regatta, they merely complicated any attempt to pick the best of the Eastern crews...
When war came, Alec joined the Navy - and so to Broadway. In 1942, in Boston to pick up and deliver home an L.C.I., which was delayed, he popped down to New York for a visit. Result: he got a speaking part in Terence Rattigan's RAFizzle (a hit in London) Flare Path...