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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...than pea coal, and every now & then a nugget as big as a man's hand, has kept the carrousel spinning for 16 years. Next week, the column and its author will share a milestone: on Dec. 13, Pearson's 51st birthday, the Merry-Go-Round will start its 17th year. Under a newly signed contract, Pearson can be pretty sure of four more years as the world's second-best-paid newsman, and its second-most-widely-syndicated columnist. (The yip-yippity-yip of his frenetic friend Walter Winchell has 200 more outlets, and pays about...
...fame spread the length & breadth of the Antipodes. In New South Wales one day, Shannon ran a mile in i :34½-a feat more impressive than the world record of 1:34! set by Equipoise at Arlington Park in 1932. In Australia, horses are timed from a standing start, whereas U.S. horses get a five-or six-jump run at the starting pole. The greatest race Shannon ever ran, he lost. That day, he got left at the post by 60 yards and then put on a magnificent charge and barely failed to win in 1:36. Making allowances...
...walls of the rooms are suspended from overhead trusses. The rooms can be made bigger or smaller, depending on the size of the crowd, simply by ra:sing the walls through slits in the ceiling. Geddes hopefully expects that Copa City, "an entirely new idea in buildings," will start a revolution...
Unfortunately for the club, Fernandez hangs out only in Mexico, and a ghost-catching expedition can't start after him until summer. Until then, the members are looking around Boston for their creaking doors and floating skulls...
Outstanding weight-tossers Sam Felton '48, Harry Dreyer, and Jim Burnham will compete at Briggs Cage this afternoon in an official try for the AAU 35-1b. weight throw record. The contest will start at 1 p.m. and precede the full but informal track meet with BU and Northeastern...