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...Wood's erratic virtuosity survived four rounds. The semifinals drew the biggest crowd (8,000) in three years, and they cheered as madly as a mannerly tennis crowd could for Elwood Cooke's brave but hopeless stand against methodical Frankie Parker. In the other semifinals, Ecuador s pigeon-toed Pancho Segura learned once again that his two-fisted drives and self-satisfied "Bravos" were no match for Bill Talbert's power strokes. Talbert won easily at the cost of a twisted knee...
...Labour Ministry of Education will initiate historic changes in British public education," Finer went on to predict. "A statute already passed by the Churchill Government, raising the minimum education age to 16, will be extracted from its pigeon hole and will become a reality," he said...
...arbitrator Lamont, who acted as auxiliary umpire after Spencer had been spirited away by unknown ragamuffins, objected at first to the CRIMSON's tactics, but information reaching him from his superior by carrier pigeon indicated that the base-line tackling was the coming thing in the Great American Game...
...Army Signal Corps: a sound recording system for sending spoken messages by carrier pigeon. The recording is on film, so thin that a 36,000-word message (two hours' dictation) can be carried by one pigeon. The film is edible, so that it can be eaten by its receiver to prevent its capture by the enemy...
...Spokane, the county's specially in stalled pigeon-frightening whistle pleased the pigeons, scared the daylights out of all the local dogs...