Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Allen, who laughingly took himself out of the 1948 presidential race, made some prophecies: "Dewey will beat Taft and Vandenberg for the privilege of trying to beat Truman; it won't be easy." To the list of Democratic vice-presidential prospects, "I should add the generally overlooked name of Governor Mon Wallgren of Washington State; indeed I should place his name high on my list." (In Olympia, Wash., Governor Wallgren promptly announced that he would accept...
Regardless of a natural post-Yale meet letdown, the Crimson must stand as favorites in the University of Washington invitation race, in which they finished fifth out of a field of eight last year...
...four-mile course itself was lined on one side by all species of craft from leg-driven, paddle boats to sumptuous three-masted schooners. On the other side, wherever piers broke through the dense shrubbery on the bank, stood enthusiastic crowds. In all, an estimated 5,000 viewed the race...
Andean Man, a stocky individual with a broad chest and purplish-ruddy complexion, is the special interest of Dr. Carlos Monge, founder of Peru's National Institute of Andean Biology. Dr. Monge regards him as a distinct climatological variety of the human race. The institute was founded (in 1930) to study the Andean Indian and thus to find ways of making the mountains livable for newcomers, both human and animal. At first, Dr. Monge had almost no money or trained help and made little progress. (Once, when he sent rabbits to Huancayo for observation, the observer ate them...
Poughkeepsie Regatta (Sat. 7 p.m., NBC; 7:15 p.m., ABC). For NBC, Bill Stern, covering the annual eight-oared shell championship race from a blimp...