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...Verdeur churned himself half out of the water at every stroke. His nearest pur suer in the N.C.A.A. 200-yard breaststroke finals was yards behind. After he had reached the finish in Seattle's University of Washington pool, Joe's winning time was announced as 2:16.8. It was al most three seconds better than the official world record - but four-tenths worse than Joe's performance of the previous week...
...county superintendent, the ex-county superintendent, and a principal from Moline-he used to be a pupil of Miss Lizzie-were all there. (The ladies of the church, worried about the right way to seat them, had written to Emily Post, who straightened them out.) After the pie and Pur Yesterdays, sung by the girls' octet, it was time for "remarks." The state Superintendent, at the peak of his form, called Miss Lizzie "an honored member of an honored profession." Then they gave Miss Lizzie the presents everybody had chipped in to buy: a walnut desk, an armchair...
...have all the notes and characteristics of the Church, but in reverse and emptied of its divine content. ... In desperate need for God, he will induce modern man in his loneliness and frustration to hunger more and more for membership in a community that will give man enlargement of pur pose, without any need of personal amend ment and without admission of personal guilt...
...restricted to products which will help France rebuild its economy: e.g., machine tools, spare parts, raw materials, etc. Furthermore, traders are limited to shipments weighing not more than five tons, nor worth more than $20,000. Larger shipments will continue to be handled by the French Government's pur chasing missions...
...aircraft and snowshoe, agents pur sued two draft dodgers in Alaska, finally caught them at the base of Mt. McKinley...