Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Track--10 points in indoor and outdoor season combined will get a major track 14. Relay points are divided, and either a win in the Ivy League meet, or a place in the N.C.A.A. or IC4A meets, or participation in the Harvard-Yale Oxford-Cambridge meet will win a major H. All point winners of championship track teams receive major H's. Yale meet counts double...
...nervous University policeman intervened at this point, enjoined the student from hosing, and lifted his bursar's card as a warning to the mob not to let the antics get out of hand...
...Lincoln story in a sports page editorial in the Chicago Daily News; the New York Herald Tribune's Red Smith devoted a column to Stern fancies. Some editors, like the New York World-Telegram's Joe Williams, feel that Sports Newsreel is a misnomer. To Stern, the point is scarcely worth arguing. "It isn't a sports show, it's entertainment for the same kind of people who listen to Jack Benny," he says, then adds defensively: "If there's a story that I know to be factual, I'll say so-but that...
Then he ticked off an eleven-point prescription. Sample ingredients: ¶ Require new carriers to fly the mail at no higher rate than pioneers on the same routes...
Long before President Truman called for the export of U.S. know-how and capital to other nations of the world (in his famed Point Four), the same idea had occurred to a small, forward-looking group of U.S., British and Canadian capitalists. The group included ex-Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius, onetime OSS Boss William J. Donovan and Britain's Sir William Samuel Stephenson, World War II boss of all British secret operations in the Western Hemisphere. At war's end, they and associates* formed the World Commerce Corp. and raised an initial $1.000.000 to help "bridge...