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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...porterhouse steak for three burst into flames on the range at Cronin's early yesterday afternoon, and before the fire was put out ten fire engines and a crowd of over 200 people had gathered on the scene...
...Catseye") Cunningham took off in a De Havilland Vampire fighter, powered with a "Ghost" jet engine. By the time he had landed, he had hung up a new airplane altitude record: 59,492 ft. (11.27 miles)-more than half a mile higher than the record (56,046 ft.) established ten years ago by Italy's Colonel Mario Pezzi. Said Catseye Cunningham: "I just flew the plane to the highest point it would go with that engine and then came down again. It took 32 minutes to go up and 18 minutes to come down...
...Godard, 42, onetime king of the dog-team racers; of cancer; in The Pas, Manitoba. At 19 he won his first major race (200 miles over rough terrain in about 30 hours), later the same year won the Eastern International Dog Derby, so dominated the field for the next ten years that fans referred to the races as "St. Godard against the field." Occasionally he finished tough races with two or three dog-tired huskies riding in the sled...
Houghteling's announcement followed the lead of his cousins, Elliott and Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., in backing Eisenhower for the Democratic nomination. The organization will seek chapters in "100 campuses in every state within the next ten days," under the National Chairmanship of Robert Boch of the University of Kansas...
Surveyors originally planned to cover ten percent of University undergraduates, but final results encompass the opinions of only 197 students, 3.6 percent of the College Population. Nevertheless, directors Ray F. Gootenberg '50 and Stanley H. Lofchie '50 claim the poll significant, since it represents "an accurate sampling" of College...