Word: townships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prettiest football coach in the U.S. is 22-year-old Pauline Rugh. When Bell Township High School, in the soft-coal mining community of Salina (20 miles east of Pittsburgh), lost its football coach, the school's comely physical-education teacher persuaded officials to let her take the job. Then she nearly lost it before she started...
...Road. In Raritan Township, N.J., William Schmoldt and his wife, proprietors of a roadside restaurant, had their waiter set up their coffee and cake snack in the middle of U.S. Route 1. No cars had come by the time they were ready for their second cup-if they could have had a second...
Before John Bricker could go off to college, he had to earn some money of his own. He taught in one of Pleasant Township's one-room schools, walked or rode horseback two and a half miles each day from the farm, earned $45 a month plus $5 for doing his own janitor work. When he got to Ohio State University, he saved money by commuting from home-catching the 5 a.m. train to Columbus, the 6 o'clock back at night...
Civil Court: To court against Hillsborough Township, N.J. went blonde, gangling Richest-Girl-in-the-World Doris Duke Cromwell. In the midst of a fight over the township's delirious attempt to collect some $14,000,000 in personal taxes from her, Miss Duke announced she would sue the township for "many thousands of dollars" for the trouble they gave her. Sued in Manhattan for an eight-year-old hotel bill was Pola Negri, imperious siren of the silents, who used to do her ogling all tangled up in jewels, ermine and general fabulousness (see cut). Now she said...
Politics. In Iowa Township, Kans., five votes were cast in the primary. The voters: the five members of the election board. In Augusta, Me., State Representative Benjamin Bubar Jr., an opponent of lotteries, tied with his opponent for renomination, drew lots...