Word: usual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aboard the Vanguard, the Queen and her daughters enjoyed the usual shipboard pastimes in cool, short-sleeved, washable prints. One fine day, Her Majesty, prone but queenly, stretched out on the 'deck with the rest of the family to try her hand at target shooting (see cut). Margaret banged out a bull's-eye on her first shot, but young Elizabeth fired 30 rounds without a hit. There were bouts of deck tennis and shuffleboard, and-for the Princesses-a giddy series of tea parties in the midshipmen's "gun room," with charades and some earnest discussion...
...green Magdalena River Valley droned a big four-motored DC-4 on one of the world's most famed time-saving runs; by boat or train it is four days from steamy, coastal Barranquilla to highland Bogotá, by air 2¼ hours. This run had the usual vanload of time-savers -49 passengers (including five U.S. businessmen) plus a crew of four...
Frank Trinkle pinned highly-rated John Michael of Brown in 55 seconds of the third period with a chicken-wing and arm lock, while 145-pounder Dan Ray in the weight class above him, turned in his usual victory, this time via the pin route, in 2:32 of the third period...
Heavyweight Pete Fuller, who easily disposed of his Princeton opponent, Alex Royd, Saturday by pinning him in both the second and third periods, will be at his usual spot, facing one of the apparently weaker Bruin classes. Dan Ray will probably have the toughest Bruin, a former Rhode Island State interscholastic champ, pitted against him, while at 136 Frank Trinkle of the Crimson is scheduled to run into a good wrestler in the person of Jack Micheal, a former Hill School captain...
Tamayo's paintings hang in over a dozen U.S. museums, sell like hot tamales at prices ranging up to $5,000. His new show impressed critics and tickled Tamayo collectors as usual. And, as usual, it sent conscientious gallerygoers swearing into the street, wishing they knew what moderns like Tamayo were driving...