Word: stringings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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South Carolina-born, 2201b. Robert Henry Best served in the U.S. Army in World War I, later studied journalism at Columbia University. In 1923 he won a $1,500 Pulitzer traveling scholarship and went to Europe, never to return. He served the United Press as Vienna string man (space-rate writer), then as Vienna staff correspondent for years. He became something of a Vienna figure-his wretched German, his broad-brimmed Stetson hat, his high-laced shoes, his corner seat in Vienna's Cafe Louvre, his troubles with women (for some time he lived with a supposedly sinister elderly...
Hong Kong, Manila, Formosa, Truk, rear bases in Japan proper. In the air, they have a string of airfields from Manchukuo, through China, down the Indo-China and Thailand promontory, along the Malaysian chain to Borneo, the Celebes, New Guinea and the Solomons...
HANOVER, N. H. Feb. 7--With the great Dartmouth line of Riley, Rondeau, and Harrison scoring six goals to celebrate Captain-Coach Dick Rondeau's return, the Dartmouth six ran its unbeaten string to 29 straight in the Davis Rink Saturday night, winning 7 to 4 at the expense of of a fighting Harvard sextet...
...polished, sophisticated music, and needs a polished, sophisticated performance. Dr. Koussevitsky knew the effects he wanted, and got them. In particular, th second and last movements stood out. In the former, the playing was perfect, so much so that it sounded as if one violin, not the entire large string section of a symphony orchestra was playing...
Also donning the khaki is Jack Fisher, better known as first string center for Dick Harlow. Fisher, no mean hand at the hammer throw, leaves for the Air Corps. Jim Wheeler, another member of the mile relay team, is in the ERC, and Saturday will probably be his last meet...