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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Foilswoman Helene Mayer of San Francisco, German refugee: the women's national fencing championship; for the seventh time; winning all five bouts and yielding only four touches along the way; at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria. Only fencer able to alternate touches with her for even a brief spell was Manhattan's Helena Mroczkowska, who tied for second place with three wins, two losses...
Richard had won his championship, over 25 other young spell-wells from as many cities, by romping through sacrilegious after his closest rival had stumbled on acquiesced. The reporter thought Richard might be interested to know that one paper, publishing this fact, had misspelled sacrilegious in its own headline. But Richard just smiled, "like a man who had been there before...
...room. My curiosity got the better of me and I looked farther. Lo and behold, there was our son Elliott and a civilian friend who had come with him from Africa." She reported further that he had "picked up some sort of germ" and was probably "in for a spell in the hospital...
...that Thurman Arnold acts with the President's tacit approval. When labor gets uppity, the President slips the leash, and Arnold cuts loose with many a bark & bay. When labor is getting plenty of lumps everywhere else, Mr. Roosevelt hauls Arnold back to the doghouse for a spell...
...girl ad, which had lost both dignity and raiment in its evolution from the patrician '205 to the leggy '403 (see cut), shows a sharp decline in popularity. > Color photography, once thought to spell the doom of hand-painted illustration, runs neck & neck with its rival. >The humorous cartoon ad ("Quick. Henry, the Flit!", etc.), which reached a peak in the middle '303, is on the way down...