Word: trainings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finally comes around when the honeymoon is over. It was over for me in the Ritz bar one hour after the Cornell game. For the team, it wasn't a honeymoon on the long train ride from Ithaca to Cambridge. It wasn't a welcome home for Paul O'Brien, Sam Butler, and Ralph Bender when I ignored them at the Monday morning eleven o'clock because I blamed them for letting Cornell backs get through the center of the line. I forgot that they were playing their first year of varsity ball...
...gates were opened and the crowd swirled around the train. Someone handed the President a copy of an early election-night edition of the Truman-hating Chicago Tribune with a banner line: DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN, and he held up the paper to the crowd, grinning...
...Perch. Washington, which months ago had abandoned Harry Truman to the Dewey landslide, now pulled itself together fast. It was set to stage one of the biggest of its conquering heroes' welcomes. Government workers and schoolchildren were let out for the event; hours before the President's train arrived, every perch and post on the hero's highway of Pennsylvania Avenue was taken. Police estimated the crowd...
...riders, he selects four to train for competition. Says he: "I tell my men what to do once. If they disobey me twice I tell them, 'You are very good friend but you are no good-go somewhere else.' " His men get up at 6 a.m. to start the day in the saddle; they also study the anatomy of the horse, the foreign riding styles (especially Italian, French and German), keep fit with fencing, basketball and swimming. But no matter how hard they try, the pupils never excel the teacher...
Died. Dr. William Teulon Swan ("Sonners") Stallybrass, 64, Vice Chancellor of Oxford University,* longtime Principal of Oxford's Brasenose College; in an accident when he stepped out of a moving train (he was almost blind); near Iver Station, Buckinghamshire, England...