Word: sixteen
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Just turned eighteen, Lois Andrews, pride of California's beauty contests, and wife of comedian George Jessel, turned up at the Crimson Network yesterday, on the second anniversary of her ejection from a Boston night club. At that time, the youthful singer-dancer was sixteen, but people thought she was at least twenty. That is everyone except the authorities, who looked at official records, instead of the more obvious facts in her favor...
...Sixteen colleges extending along the Atlantic seaboard from New Hampshire to North Carolina have entered 91 contestants whose combined ability constitutes one of the strongest fields in several years. Of all the championship marks see in the past, only one--the 2:51.9 medley relay effort of Vande Weghe, Hough and Van Oss of Princeton--seems beyond the reach of the current crop of mermen. Any of the others may conceivably go by the boards...
...Sixteen government agencies-for planning, building and financing houses-were heaped together in a formless pile. Somewhere under all this trash was a record of eight years of peacetime housing bungling, of a year and a half of defense housing bungling. Hundreds of thousands of badly needed houses were still being drafted or just being argued about...
Trend's February issue reaches such heights only through its, poets led by Katinka Loeser, an alumna of Chicago, currently studying aviation. Her "Modern Language" combines in sixteen short lines a concise explanation of the problems and techniques of the modern writers with a poetic expression coming as near the lyric as the static quality of intellectual poetry will permit. This same bound lyricism, gaining in immediacy and intellectual intenseness what it loses in fluid song, characterizes all the better poems of the issue. Helen Wieselburg's "Starway," and Creighton Gilbert's "War Poem" again display the advantages as well...
Last month Buck officially assumed his duties as wartime Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, sixteen years after he began as an Instructor in History under Professor Arthur Schlesinger, also a graduate of Ohio State...