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...common people were represented too. Three rooms and part of the main Chancellery Hall were piled high with presents. Peasants sent their native handiwork. Westphalian women knitted 6,000 pairs of socks for the Fiihrer's soldiers. Housewives got together to bake a six-foot cake. From the more militarily minded came pistols, hand grenades, an assortment of knives and daggers, a live eagle which the Führer will release in the Bavarian Mountains...
...clock the Junior Varsity race gets under way. With positions in the shell unsettled, the Jayvees eked out a slim six-foot victory over a game but lighter third crew in the time-trials Thursday. While far better than last year's Junior Varsity, its spirit and power are handicapped by the sloppy form of certain individual oarsmen...
...Burly, six-foot Henry Ruthvin Smith is one postman who does not go walking on his holidays. After 16 years of lugging a fat mailbag over a regular residential route in Columbia, S. C., even the walking he had to do for the Post Office Department got to be too much. But while other postmen with the same problem met it by foot baths or retirement, Mailman Smith used his head. Last week, with the blessing of the Postmaster General, he was awheel in one of the strangest contraptions that ever carried Uncle Sam's post. Footsore grey-coats...
...Invite." Pius XII does not smoke, eats sparingly, drinks little wine. He has been accustomed to vacation yearly in Switzerland or in Italy's Montecatini. He keeps his lean, six-foot frame in condition by exercising in a completely equipped gymnasium in his Secretary of State's apartments-from which, presumably, he will move as soon as the late Pope's living quarters, two floors above, are redecorated. On his first day as Pope, Pius XII rose at 6 a.m., shaved himself with his electric razor, celebrated Mass, breakfasted on coffee and rolls, then embarked upon...
Besides Partlow, high jumpers in the six-foot bracket include Captain Bob Haydock, Gil Aertsen, and Irving Michelman. And on an approximately even par with the Sophomore kangaroo are Rock Hollands and Paul Morgan. The shotput and discus trio of George Downing, Howie Mendel, and Nat Heard is perhaps the strongest unit on the team, while Bill Shallow, Arnie Gale, and Bob Sears will bear the brunt of the hammer-throwing...