Word: plays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reasons, Eugenio Pacelli. While the series was in progress, Walter's friend, Russian Pianist Ossip Gabrilowitsch, was imprisoned on charges of espionage. Gabrilowitsch got a message to Walter, who spoke to Pacelli, who whispered in someone's ear. In not much more time than it takes to play a Bruckner symphony, Gabrilowitsch was free...
...Denver, Colo., three-year-old Elaine Nybord started to play with an electric batter-mixer while it was mixing batter in a bowl. As it fell to the floor, it knocked her down, caught her by the curls, yanked most of them...
...mystery yarns, legend outdid the truth only a little. Legend said that he was merely the figurehead of a big writing syndicate. Witnesses swore it was true, however flabbergasting, that he dictated a full-length thriller in 60 hours, 1,200-word articles in 20 minutes, a hit play in 14 hours. To complicate the picture, he was also called a lazy man, who squandered many an hour at poker, many an afternoon at the race track...
Jumping into the lead in the final minute of play on a basket by Hal Lubchansky, the Harvard Jayvee basketball team concluded a fairly successful season by handing a 43 to 41 defeat to the Yale Junior Varsity quintet in a closely contested game in New Haven Saturday night...
...Crimson and the Blue waged a nip-and-tuck battle throughout the entire 40 minutes of play, and neither team enjoyed a safe lead. Coach Johnny Wood's charges held a 20 to 19 edge at the end of the first half...