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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Albert E. Hays Jr., 27, a startling nine-day wonder in 1939, turned out to be turning out all right, despite his unpromising start. As a college boy he had won national fame by swallowing 42 goldfish (washed down with chocolate soda); he then dropped out of sight. This week he was looking for a house in West Hartford, Conn, to settle down as boss of emergency messages for the American Radio Relay League (radio "hams"). Nobody held his past against him, and he never touched the stuff any more...
...Francisco, before 80,000, California, a team that was a sorry sight last year, scored a 14-7 upset over Navy, which is rated one of the powers in the East. California has a brand-new coach, Lynn ("Pappy") Waldorf, late of Northwestern, and two slippery sophomore backs-Jack Jensen and Bob Celeri...
...been married just two days. When she was found dead in a ditch, the hunt for her husband was on. Connelly and Drury found him. While the Herald-American pulled out all the stops (HERO REPORTERS REVEAL HUSBAND'S OWN STORY), they kept him out of sight, gave him up to the police only after they had found out everything they wanted to know...
Practical consequences are not yet in sight, for the wave mechanicians work in a never-never land far beyond the frontier of practical technology. But Nobelman Rabi compared Lamb & Retherford's criticism of the Dirac theory with Einstein's modification of Newton's laws of motion. It took 40 years for Einstein's relativity to grow into the atom bomb...
...German combat patrol, Allen recalls that they were "mowed down." A minor attack became a powerful counterattack, prisoners are credited to the wrong division and the negotiated surrender of a distant enemy division is described as if the enemy troops laid down their arms at the mere sight of Patton...