Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Following a pattern of presenting election topics in the first three meetings, the Forum has scheduled a round-table discussion of the coming presidential race by five Law School professors...
Died. Dr. Ruth Fulton Benedict, 61, Columbia professor of anthropology; of coronary thrombosis; in Manhattan. A poetess who first took up anthropology as a hobby, Dr. Benedict wrote her monumental Patterns of Culture to document her theory that whole societies behave like human personalities. When she co-authored The Races of Mankind in 1943 to refute the Nazi master-race doctrine, a House committee found her statements on racial equality "controversial," banned the book from Army distribution...
...Race Street (RKO Radio) presents George Raft as a Los Angeles gambler, William Bendix as a detective friend, and Henry Morgan as a crippled friend. The cripple gets brutally killed by "protection" racketeers. Detective Bendix, true to his trade, wants to hunt down the killers in lawful and orderly fashion. Gambler Raft, like all shady characters, is faithful to a code which scorns help from a copper. They argue this difference of technique, in a friendly way, until Raft's enemies, seeing them together, conclude that Raft is playing stool pigeon. That puts him in real trouble. There...
...other contenders, including Houghteling and Wright, withdrew from the race...
Athletic Director Bill Bingham may like the Red Sox, but the chances are he won't exactly be broken-hearted if they are eliminated from the pennant race before this Saturday. The reason is simple. If the Sox are still in there, it's going to mean a packed Fenway Park, which in turn is going to mean a slightly less-packed Stadium...