Word: townes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proof of TIME'S toughness-came from a group of Trinity preparatory school boys in New York City. They didn't want to reprint anything; they wanted 50 copies of TIME for their weekend soccer game. It seems that there was a shin guard shortage in town, and a sporting goods salesman had advised them to substitute magazines for the time being. They tried all shapes & sizes of them and found that TIME was just right for their purpose. They managed to rustle up enough copies for their first game, which they won with the aid of Molotov...
...buckram-bound volume was published last month by the Department of the Army. The book has illustrations-photographs of 281 men. Most of the faces are young, most of them look as familiar as the boy up the street. Their names read like the telephone directory in any U.S. town-Adams, Anderson . . . Hall-,man, Hamilton . . . Kisters, Knappen-berger . . . Soderman, Specker . . . Zeam-er, Zussman. Photographs of eleven were "not available." Few of these men are famous; all of them are heroes. The 292 men memorialized in the book are the Army's Medal of Honor winners in World...
...Gurion stepped up colonization schedules for the Jerusalem corridor and the Negeb, planned to settle 5,000 to 10,000 Jews in the southern desert within the next three years. Within two months, he announced, several hundred Jewish pioneers would move into Beersheba to make it a Jewish town. He also announced that Israeli representatives were holding secret talks with leaders of two Arab nations (probably Lebanon and Egypt...
...winning team among the limited material on hand, the Blue has had an in-and-out season: After opening the campaign in impressive style by stopping a hefty Brown outfit, 28-13, the Elis were barely able to squeeze by a determined Connecticut eleven. Then Columbia came to town and fought off a last-minute rally to overcome Yale 34-28, but the Blue stermed back the following week to take Wisconsin's Badgers...
...Hall, as the good Yankees call it, burned in 1761. Peter Faneuil couldn't help rebuild it--he had been dead for 18 years--so the town raised money with a lottery. "Faneuil Hall Lottery Tickets" sold slowly, but eventually enough was raised to rebuild the market...