Word: pre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Irving Addison Bacheller, 90, whose optimistic fresh-air tales of upstate New York's "North Country" (Eben Hoiden, Barrel of the Blessed Isles, Silas Strong) were pre-Jazz Age favorites; in White Plains, N.Y. At 40, Bacheller left his job as Sunday editor of Pulitzer's New York World to finish his third novel (his first two were flops), Eben Holden, which sold a million copies and brought him sudden fame...
...freshman hockey team will be in for another tough afternoon when it meets Melrose High at 4 p.m. today in the Arena. Melrose has already beaten the Yardlings once, handing them their first defeat in a pre-vacation game...
...pre-season guessers, bemoaning the graduation of Lavelli, along with Coach Howie Hobson, had placed the Elis to finish about fourth in the League. But Jim Osbourn is filling in very adequately for Lavelli (15 point League average), and with the team working better together as a unit, Yale now appears to have clinched second place in the Elis...
...European Recovery Program --ERP-- has reconstructed Rouen and France and a large part of Western Europe. It has helped jump European industrial output 15 percent over pre-war levels; hiked farm production nearly as much. ERP officials say their aid has been our chief weapon against communism. Congress now has a bill extending the program for another year. It should be passed...
Last week, with the annual pre-Lenten carnival at hand, Attila the Hun journeyed to Port-of-Spain's Mucurapo Stadium to compete with other island troubadours for the unofficial title of Trinidad's 1950 calypso king. A crowd of 3,000 sweating Trinidadians-black, white and East Indian-sat jampacked under the glaring lights. A steel band, hammering biscuit tins, old oil cans and brake drums, made the place hotter with ear-splitting overtures. Then judges were picked from the audience, and the calypsonians started in. Besides Attila there were old master-singers with such names...