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Pankey is the Deacons' sparkplug. Small for a basketball player, he keeps constantly under the feet of opposing giants and is too fast to be brushed off. Offensively, Pankey is one of the League's sharpest shooters. He won the first Kirkland-Lowell game with a last second 20-foot basket...

Author: By Edward J. Coughlin, | Title: 3 Deacons Make Crime's All-House Basketball Team | 3/29/1950 | See Source »

...envoys to ten South American countries met in Rio de Janeiro last week to thresh out regional problems and talk policy. Sparkplug of the meeting was brisk, affable Edward G. Miller, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. Also present, as observer and counselor: the State Department's planner in chief, scholarly George F. Kennan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ills to Cure | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

Coach Munro is sticking to the same lineup that clicked against Navy last Saturday. This means that Jim Bell, a crasher, at center forward and Rick Drake, a good tackler, at center half. "Drake is our sparkplug," says Munro, "He's everywhere. He gets the ball and really feeds it forward...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: Soccer Team Faces Powerful Tigers | 11/5/1949 | See Source »

...sparkplug of the congress was suave, greying Vicente Lombardo Toledano, Mexican boss of the leftist Latin American Confederation of Workers. An old hand at organizing pro-Communist meetings, he had the shabby hall packed on opening night with 5,000 people, including 800 delegates from the U.S., Canada and Latin America. During a two-hour delay before the rally got under way, they whooped it up with cheers for "Peace, Peace, Peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Down Warmongers! | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

Marriage Revealed. Walter White, 56, sparkplug of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; and Poppy Cannon, 40, brunette food-editor of Mademoiselle; he for the second time, she for the fourth; on July 6 (his Mexican divorce by Leah Gladys Powell White was announced July 7); in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 22, 1949 | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

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