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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy team has also had its practice troubles this year, but is virtually unknown to the Crimson not strategists. Army boasts a high-ranking intercollegiate competition veteran named Oliver, but the Cadets are rumored weak in the lower positions...
Diamond Flush. In Berwick, Pa., Mrs. Hensyl Garrison absently dropped her diamond ring into one of the 300 bags of potato chips she was filling, shipped it off to an unknown nibbler. In Weatherly, Pa., Mrs. Emory J. Miller irritably attacked a clogged drain with a suction plunger, brought up the $175 ring that she misplaced 20 years...
...three-way race for the Democratic senatorial nomination, he ran a close second to Political Unknown Harry Truman (who won with overwhelming Pendergast machine support in Kansas City...
...been a part of Boston since before the time of Curley, and partisans of good government are afraid they will stay on after the 71-year old boss retires from the municipal whirl. Of payroll padding, the Finance Commission reported in 1945 "that the identity of some subordinates is unknown even to their immediate superiors." With great eclat, Curley has discharged groups of officials in a burst of economy only to fill the vacancies in the succeeding weeks with his henchmen and not a few of his family...
...15th Century house at Haslemere in Surrey. She trotted to the Commons, the Ministries, the galleries and the concert halls, talked with shopkeepers and bombed-out housewives and Cockneys-people like herself. She wrote in a little glass hut tucked in the woods at home. Almost a literary unknown in her own country, she had done little writing for British audiences since a fairly successful first novel, Shoreless Sea, she wrote...