Word: thirds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They soon found out: he was a bald, ruddy lawyer, a wealthy Omaha Democrat-and the third man considered for the job. Harry Truman had wanted North Carolina's Jonathan Daniels, whose father had been Woodrow Wilson's Navy Secretary. Daniels didn't want the job. Democratic National Committee Chairman J. Howard McGrath had his own candidate -his friend, Judge Robert Quinn of Rhode Island. But Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson didn't want Quinn. In raising funds for Harry Truman's campaign, Johnson had got a good look at Frank Matthews and liked what...
...power, Harvard went up to a beat of 36, then all the way up to 41. Tom Bolles's varsity swept ahead to win by open water over runnerup Penn. The time: 6:48.8. It was the varsity's fourth straight victory of the season, and the third year in a row for Tom Bolles & Co. in the Eastern sprint regatta. The others also got something to think about for 1950. Harvard's junior varsity and freshmen crews won their races...
Crusade in Europe (Thurs. 9 p.m., ABC-TV). Third chapter. Special guest: General George C. Marshall...
...races in which the Crimson was not the runner-up, as luck would have it, was the big one--the New England Championships May 7 and 8 which also served as eliminations for the National Championships. In this regatta the Harvard team of Putnam and Scullay dropped to third place, two points behind Brown which nosed out Harvard for the honor of following Yale. Only two boats from New England can race in the nationals...
Besides Ager an Bullard in the doubles the second and third teams will be made up of Hughes and Ames, and Jay Robb and Dave Key. Barnaby, as usual, plans to play his lower echelon doubles teams in both matches when and if the Crimson racks up a good lead...