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Scheduled for 1 3/4 miles, the race will break two precedents, being the shortest course ever traveled by the two eight's, and being the first time that the event was over held on the Charles. Traditionally, the two shells move over a four-mile course on the Thamos River in New London, although the last wartime race in 1942 was a two-mile affair at Derby, Conn...
This year's show, called John Paul Jones, closed after 14 performances. Reason: the chorus boys had to return to their classes, which are still on a wartime speedup schedule. The 1946 tour was one of the shortest, but its music was some of the best in the Mask & Wig Club's 58 years...
...What," asked Kieran, "is the mean approximate distance from the earth to the moon?" (Answer: 239,000 miles.) "Who served the shortest term in the Presidency?" (Answer: William Henry Harrison.) After twelve such questions the guests, who had been served dry sack, Riesling, Burgundy, champagne, brandy and liqueurs, laid down their pencils with a collective sigh. Forty schoolteachers took over the job of correcting papers...
...China, puppets tumbled right & left. One of them was Henry Pu Yi, ex-Emperor of the ex-state of Manchukuo; he was a Russian prisoner. Another was Inner Mongolia's roly-poly Prince Teh (full name Teh-mu-chu-keh-lung-lu-pu), whose arid realm is the shortest international high way between Soviet Siberia and Peking...
Expediter Bushong promptly rallied his people and submitted to volunteers what is probably the war's shortest, most-to-the-point . questionnaire: "Who are you? What can you do?" He picked 100 (preachers, teachers, students, and a shrewdly chosen handful of veteran dirt farmers) as herders...