Word: runners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thorpe the best all-around athlete of all time? No, not versatile enough. Babe Didrikson? Runner-up, perhaps. Well, who was? Harris Baldwin Fisher Jr., said Grantland Rice, and he wrote a column last week to prove it. Even the unconvinced would have to admit that Grant Rice's surprise selection was worth arguing...
Much more than the lieutenant-governorship is at stake. Closely tied up with the election are: 1) the prestige of Franklin Roosevelt and the Fourth Term movement; 2) the Presidential aspirations of Tom Dewey, front-runner in the race for the 1944 G.O.P. nomination...
...broken three records: world's official two-mile (best time, his own unofficial 8:47.8, set in Sweden last summer), the U.S. 1,500-meter (3:47.8) and U.S. outdoor mile (4:05.3). He began packing to go back to Sweden. There in his absence another runner, his friend, hulking Arne Andersson, had smashed Gunder's mile record with a mark...
...note with interest that 42 states and the District of Columbia are represented by officers now enrolled in the Army Supply Officers Training School. New York leads with 30 delegates and, as you might guess, Texas with 20 loyal ambassadors is runner-up. Next in order come Ohio with 16, Pennsylvania with 13, Illinois with 12. and California, Connecticut, and Indiana with six apiece to their credit. Mississippi, Delaware, Montana, Idaho, Nevada, and New Mexico are the missing links, or is one of the these states being slighted. In passing it looks as if the enrollment includes 41 First Lieutenants...
...most of the game, Judge had the situation pretty will under control and got good defensive support from his teammates, including two sparkling double plays. Offensively, however, it was a different story, as runner after runner died on the sacks...