Word: shorters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twenty-three men and five women from Maine, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire entered the January 12 races. Eight of the men ran the approximately 2,000-foot course in less than a minute, the winner making it in 52 seconds. The winning woman ran a shorter course in 54 seconds. Each week a gold medal is awarded to the winners of both the men's and women's races. In addition, the lucky ticket holder each Sunday receives a free season pass for the Ossipee...
...hysterical condition into which the British press and the British radio have whipped themselves over a temporary advance of a few miles. The very fact that this zone has been crossed by the British in a very short time, and by the Italians, on the previous occasion, in a shorter time still, only goes to prove that the feat can be done...
Best times of the afternoon's program were accomplished in the 100 and 50 yard freestyle events. Juniors Michael J. Brodie of Kirkland and Philip P. Sharples of Dunster covered the shorter distance in 0:25.4 seconds, while the longer stretch was done by George A. Ball of Lowell in 0:58.2 and Robert T. Sceery of Kirkland...
...strength, are the themes of the sixth compared to those of the earlier symphony. Saturday night, again, Toscanini is doing (in addition to the Second Symphony) two of Sibelius's better known tone-poems, Pohjola's Daughter and The Swan of Tuonela. This is a chance to hear two shorter masterpieces, each impressive, but in entirely different ways: The Swan being a quiet, meditative mood-piece with little excitement, and Pohjola's Daughter being a volcanic orchestration of an old Scandinavian myth...
...year's Oscar with his eerie effects in Wuthering Heights, has this year supplied two more candidates with The Grapes of Wrath, The Long Voyage Home. Toland's daring, imaginative style has earned him a reputation as the Artist of the cameramen, even though he is somewhat shorter on technical skill than his top-notch competitors. After 20 years at the job, Toland, now 36, earns $62,000 a year from his contract with Samuel Goldwyn, lives a quiet, unsocial Hollywood life in spite of his upper-bracket salary...