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First Taste. Hecht got his first taste of publishing as manager of the Cornell Era in 1917, whetted his appetite during World War I by a stint under Propaganda Boss George Creel. At war's end, while doing settlement-house work in his spare time, Hecht founded Better Times (still the official organ of the New York Welfare Council) and got the idea for a magazine to help parents give their children better care and training...
...Philadelphia, Pitcher Bob Lemon of Cleveland became the majors' first 20-game winner. His relief stint stopped the Philadelphia Athletics, 5-4, brought his team into a second-place tie with the New York Yankees, 1½ games behind Detroit. Lemon's record...
...hire a crown of thorns-that's Kingsley Martin." Martin registered as a conscientious objector in 1916. After his return from World War I duties as a hospital orderly in France, he studied at Cambridge, fell in with the prevailing intellectual fashion of Marxism and, after a stint on the Manchester Guardian, became editor of the New Statesman...
...named for his stint as Assistant Secretary of Commerce (1935-40), when he bossed the U.S. inland waterway system...
...liking. As venturesome as an earlier Norseman named Lief, he was born with "a yen for the different." He quit Norway at 17 to study at Minnesota's Augsburg College, later got a degree in civil engineering at the University of Minnesota. After a World War I stint as a lieutenant (he got his citizenship while in uniform) Sverdrup teamed up with John Ira Parcel, one of his old professors at Minnesota, to tackle big construction jobs. They built nine bridges over the Missouri River, four across the Mississippi, another over Missouri's Lake of the Ozarks...