Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every week about 35 news items end up in MMP. They are the newsworthy survivors of a long list of births, deaths, marriages, divorces, utterances, and doings of known people, and, so far as Miscellany is concerned, the whimsicalities and outrages of the unknown. (Our Miscellany Editor, in his annual selection of the year's best items from his section, calls them "a calendar of triumphs, defeats and contortions of the human spirit...
When Thomas E. Dewey picked him to be his grand strategist in the 1944 presidential campaign, Herbert Brownell was a political unknown outside New York City and Albany. This week Herb Brownell decided to return to obscurity, and his law practice...
...city and province of Buenos Aires, which controlled almost half of the nation's 376 electoral votes, would swing the election. Perón would show his chief strength among country peons and unorganized workers of the cities. Tamborini depended on the upper and middle classes and an unknown sector of organized labor. A potent, unmeasured factor: the Church, which took a jaundiced view of Tamborini's Communist support...
Operation Musk-Ox had set out to learn about this unknown country. The mechanized explorers of Musk-Ox would study the geology, meteorology and topography of the Dominion's upper reaches, the performance of snowmobiles (originally designed for the Allied invasion of Norway but never used), the suitability of new-type winter clothing and winter shelters. They would test the feasibility of supplying ground forces by air under Arctic conditions...
...varsity will take on the University of Connecticut swimmers Saturday. The Connecticut mermen are an unknown quantity...