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Because form as well as distance counts in a ski jump, Record-Smasher Kongsgaard (whose landings were shaky) finished third, after two fellow Norwegians, in the Seattle Ski Club tournament. He took that in stride along with his new record. Said Sverre Kongsgaard: "I made a good jump. It may never happen again...
Harry Truman, jaunty as ever, took it all in stride. He met with congressional leaders, held his regular weekly Cabinet meeting, by the end of each day had signed his initials or name up to 600 times-on everything from staff memos and postmasters' appointments to a proclamation announcing Freedom...
...front-in 59.5. Track veterans, remembering Gil Dodds's windmill style, were struck by the contrast; like a good rumba dancer, Gehrmann hardly moved from the waist up. He was all legs, eating up the boards with a long (8½ ft.), smooth and relaxed stride. Crumpled in his right hand, Gehrmann clutched something blue-a handkerchief, for luck...
Italy's swarthy, balding Director Roberto Rossellini (Open City, Paisan), on his first visit to the U.S., was taking the fast pace of Hollywood in stride last week. The telephone in his double suite at the Beverly Hills Hotel was kept ringing by cinema celebrities eager to entertain him. The evening he arrived, he dined with Ingrid Bergman (he expects to sign her up for his next picture). The next night there was a small, stylish dinner given by Writer-Director Billy Wilder. One morning David O. Selznick called...
...President described Lamont Library as "a long stride forward and a good step backward, a step towards the simple past when the paucity of books and students automatically made a college library easy of access...