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...Spider" Black, Rhode Island's greatest distance man, didn't run, but even without him, the Rams overpowered Jaakko Mikkola's relay teams in yesterday's informal meet in Briggs Cage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: R.I. State Downs Crimson Runners In Practice Meet | 12/10/1948 | See Source »

Star of the State milers is "Spider" Black, last year's winner of the National Collegiate cross country championship and the AAU cross country championship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strong R.I. Team Faces Trackmen In Today's Relays | 12/9/1948 | See Source »

Heiskell's tolerance also permits a daily column in the staid Gazette by Hardy ("Spider") Rowland, a cigar-chomping, self-confessed sinner who used to run a suburban gambling house. Spider writes about his bouts with "wobble water," refers to young girls as "quails," and brags about his encounters with the law. Spider wrote in a recent column: "I attribute my outstanding ability to kiss to blowing a bugle for a couple of years with the Boy Scouts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Arkansas Teetotaler | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

...Strapontins. So far, the Communist spider had not walked into the fly's parlor. Communist Boss Maurice Thorez, however, was maneuvering so that he could take full advantage of an offer from Herriot & Co. whenever they were willing to pay his price. His present tactics called for grèves tournantes-revolving strikes -which hit one industry after another, creating enough damage to offset ECA help to France but limited enough to hold the door open to overtures from Herriot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Awake | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

...powerful means for achieving true happiness," noted candid young Leo Tolstoy in his diary, "[is] to spread out from oneself, in every direction, like a spider, a whole spider's web of love, and to catch in it everything that comes along-whether it is an old woman or a child, a girl or a policeman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bright Young Man | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

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