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...bantamweight boxer, had been the devoted sidekick of ex-Professor Douglas. Like Douglas, who lost the use of his left arm while fighting with the Marines on Okinawa, McAdams, now a successful attorney, had lost his in action with the Navy at Leyte. Their 1948 technique had been to scour the state in a jeep, stopping at factories, filling stations, street corners, starting at 7 a.m. and carrying on until midnight; they traveled 40,000 miles to deliver 1,100 Douglas orations...
...halfback lien showed depth with veterans Larry Leonard, "Pants" Pantatconi, and "Laisi" Berger backed by Kick Miller and sophomore Dana Getchell. The goal was scour under the care of Dick Craven and Don Harshman...
...With Hughes's approval, they were going to start a profit-sharing system for top-rank stars, writers and producers, boasted that they would assemble "under one roof, the smartest people since the Greeks." They planned to hire a corps of the nation's top newsmen to scour the world for original story material. Their films would cover the whole scale from social drama (Country Club, a study of Midwest manners & morals) to ribald comedy (Mother Knows Best, a collection of "clean-dirty stories" with Mae West and Jane Russell...
...Elementary schools and high schools continued to scour for teachers, needed 111,515 new ones when the Times wound up its count...
...Rescue. When the blizzard finally blew itself out, Army planes took off to drop supplies, scour the snow-burdened plains for signs of distress. Some spotted stranded motorists, who had survived miraculously far from towns. Some had been lucky enough to sit out the storm in their cars. One man and his wife who were marooned near Scottsbluff, Neb. had even found food-frozen ears of corn from roadside fields...