Word: rans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...freshman one mile relay team provided the 10,724 spectators with one of the biggest thrills of the day with their neck and neck race with Yale. Tom McGrath led off, ran a steady race, and passed the stick to John Packard who lost ground to Yale's Ellinger. Rounie Berman then narrowed the Elis' margin to 3 yards. Anchor man Eddie Grutsner made a gallant try for the lead but Yale's Brown finished with a 1 1/2 yard advantage. The winning time was 329.9 with Dartmouth in 3rd place. Berman noted that inexperience in competition seemed...
...Mallard had put up an awful fuss. Even after the Georgia Bureau of Investigation had charged her with the murder herself she wouldn't shut up. They let her out of jail after a few hours, and what did Amy do? She ran off and hid in Savannah and said she was scared and got her name in the papers...
Mike was a man full of surprises. When he ran against oldtime G.O.P. Sheriff Martin Pratt last November (slogan: "A G.I. Who Believes in Democracy"), he said he was 30, had played football at the University of Michigan, and had served 6½ years in the Marines. After Mike won, a checkup showed that he was 27, that he never went to the University of Michigan, and that he served only 23 months in the Marines. "I didn't mean anything wrong." Mike explained. "It was just one of those things in a campaign. I just needed some real...
...matter what the modernists may think, Italy's women rice pickers are not 'rectangular objects with wooden thighs and faces like rotten cantaloupes.'" So ran an editorial in the Italian Communist magazine, Rinascita, which has caught the current Kremlin fever for art with a rosy-Red message (TIME, March 8). Last week, in a letter to Rinascita, 14 ill-indoctrinated party painters struck back. Among them was 37-year-old Renato Guttuso-one of the best Italian artists living. Art, said their letter, should concern itself with "the struggles of the working class [but] to these struggles...
...cancer; in Oyster Bay, N.Y. The No. 1 book salesman of his time, he took over the business from his father, bought out the Literary Guild in 1934, ended up operating six book clubs, a nationwide chain of bookstores, two reprint and mail-order houses (his presses ran off 30 million books in 1948). As a child he persuaded Rudyard Kipling to write Just So Stories, collected a 1? royalty on each copy sold in his lifetime...