Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week M-G-M deftly solved that by signing up with Chicago's Zenith Radio Corp. to use Zenith's ready-made distributing organization. By this stroke M-G-M got entry into the many phonograph shops which sell Zenith radios, hopes to sell their records in 5,000 key stores. But MGM's first album, four ten-inch records of Jerome Kern music from the film Till the Clouds Roll By, will cost $3-75, somewhat higher than most of Victor's, Decca's and Columbia...
Annapolis is rated impregnable in the breast and back stroke departments. Chip Higgins turns in a regular 2:35 for the butterfly, and Tom Lechner will literally take his event lieing down
Colombia, says a local wag, appears to have suffered a stroke: all its activity is confined to its left side; the right is paralyzed. About 80% of the country's coffee, the bulk of its industry and gold mining, and Buenaventura, now Colombia's No. 1 port, are all west of the Magdalena River. The keys to the western development are the states of Antioquia and Caldas (see map), where in less than a century coffee bushes have sprouted from the wilderness, and factories from the coffee bushes...
Back-seat scorers are not anticipating victory in the breast stroke for the visiting team, but the Crimson swimmers are expected to pull both relays out of the fire. Ballard, who amassed a ten-point total as high scorer in the Pointers meet, will join with Jerry Gorman and Ted and Norris to offer the Lions potentially powerful opposition in the long distance races...
...yesterday for his disappearance. One possibility still given credence was amnesia. His father noted his anxiety to row with the Varsity crew this spring, and thought that perhaps Sylvester resented the hastening of his graduation on GI credits which would make him ineligible to take his old position at stroke...