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After most of the crowd had called it a day (spectators on the observation train had shuttled 30 miles during their six-hour watch), the ill-fated junior varsity race took place in pitch darkness with lanterns lighting the way. Washington won that...
...Acquired Eugene O'Neill (whom it neglected in his early days), produced his six-hour Strange Interlude as a gamble, grossed $5,000,000 from...
...Pasteur also had a paralytic stroke, also did some of his most important work after his recovery. The late, great Brain Surgeon Harvey Cushing, a friend of Dr. Tilney, was crippled by a nerve disease during World War I, later recovered, went back to his six-hour operations...
...insisted, by false orders to his troops to surrender. Major Hoch Nielsen, commandant of the key fortress at Kongsvinger, was deposed by his men when he failed to order stout resistance. A band of 135 Finnish war veterans-volunteer Swedes and Finns as well as Norwegians-stood a desperate six-hour siege. They manned even an old muzzle-loading cannon, which recoiled 18 feet and had to be hauled back into place after every shot. Nazi shock troopers finally blasted them out with mortars and flame...
LONDON -- Royal Air Force reconnaissance planes flew back from the island of Sylt today with photographic evidence of havoc created by wave after wave of British bombers in a six-hour bombardment of the German air base...