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...meet us. We literally stagger along the road. One of my blokes falls, all he can say is, "Water! Water!" and then he passes out and is picked up by ambulance and is taken back. We reach the transport and collapse beneath the trucks which provide the only shade...
...Ford is the leading pole vaulter with Chet d'Autremont not quite able to equal Ford's 13 feet as yet. Bill Couch and Steve Brooks are the other vaulters. The hammer throw has Bob Chase and Tom White both guaranteeing performances better than 140 feet with Chases a shade more than that. Harold Smith is the third tosser in that event. At this point the javelin is probably Mikkola's weakest event, with an undeveloped group led by Tem Lacey, John Ordway, and Bob Chase...
...find. When a situation involves divided public opinion, Franklin Roosevelt likes to edge into it; only when he thinks he is sure of the reaction does he move dramatically. Probability was strong that he would exhaust every possible means of supplying the British with ships, would devise every possible shade of diplomatic approach, would allow the whole convoy problem to simmer until public opinion was definitely behind...
Miss Keith centers most of the appeal of her "art" on four tassels, stragetically located and rotating in contrasting directions. "I hate my tassels, but the boys love them, so I let them have it. I was inspired to originate the tassel dance by the tassel of a window shade that I was watching one day. I resolved to put life into that stagnant thing," she says, and she does...
...hair turned a shade greyer on the heads of many elder statesmen when ex-Fellow Traveler MacLeish was appointed Librarian of Congress. A Time to Speak, a collection of MacLeish prose of the past decade, should reassure all but the most skittish. Though the original journalistic impact of some of the pieces has been softened by time, most of them show that even in the days of his most furious fellow-traveling Poet MacLeish was chiefly interested in asserting the importance of the poet's role in a world of social change...