Word: shorely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...onlooker mumbled: "Hell, he used to clear the decoys, and plunk 16 feet from shore." One-third of the way across, Shed's black head turned at a whistle from Bakewell to get directions. He entered the cattails just six feet from where the mallard was hidden, sniffed for a second, found his bird. A few minutes later, Shed did it again, and won his third U.S. championship. His owner, who once turned down $10,000 for him, will collect almost that much next year from Shed's stud fees. Said an admiring voice in the gallery...
...earlier days of tennis playing, Backe led the Bay Shore (L.I.) High School team, and later while at the University of Pennsylvania briefly before entering the service, defeated in three sees George L. Rogers, perennial stalwart of Ireland's Davis Cuppers. While in the service, the Holworthy Yardling played very little tennis, although he did win the Ohio State men's championships in the summer of 1943 when on furlough
...night and a day, the Sun reported, 26 cops busily beat the bushes of the North Shore. None won McCormick's $100 reward. Then Trib Reporter Chester Nichols was assigned to the hunt. After 22 sleepless hours he tracked Lotta down. When admiring cops asked him how he'd done it, Newshawk Nichols replied: "Simple. Until the Tribune hired me four years ago I was the dog-catcher at Evanston." The Sun's headline: SCOOP! MCCORMICK DOG OUTSMARTED BY TRIBUNE...
...bench in 1939 in return (according to Maryland Democrats) for backing Franklin Roosevelt's unsuccessful 1938 "purge" of Maryland Senator Millard Tydings. Judge Goldsborough is tall, kindly, vigorous, the father of four. As a politician, he is a New Deal follower who represented Maryland's Eastern Shore in Congress for 18 years (1921-39), specializing in fiscal problems. As a jurist, Judge Goldsborough is impatient of red tape and somewhat hasty. Once he called a defendant a son-of-a-bitch in court-an outburst that caused the U.S. Court of Appeals to reverse the case...
Ford Show (Wed. 9:30 p.m., CBS). Songstress Dinah Shore, Comic Peter Lind Hayes and, of late weeks, a much-improved script...