Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, when the returns were in, the committee found that 1949's "Miss Quonset Point" was Mrs. Eva Clausen, who sweeps up in the huge Overhaul and Repair shop. Mrs. Clauson is 43, the wife of a disabled World War I veteran, mother of five children, and plain. But every worker in the 0. & R. shop knows Eva. She listens to their troubles, smiles at their jokes. Bluejackets and civilian workmen call her "Olive Oyl." And some 500 of them voted...
...Then the trustees asked the Rutland city council for help. That involved a referendum, but last week it was still a month away, and Rutland's 16-member faculty had not been paid since mid-March. Facing these facts, President Benjamin B. Warfield, a 44-year-old Navy veteran, went to the college books for figures. The college needed at least $10,000 to tide it over until the referendum; it had just $35.70 in the bank. It looked as if Rutland Junior College might have to close down before polling day. But there was one asset...
...CRIMSON clockers have ben at the track daily this past week to check the times of the starters. The field as a whole shows good conformation, especially around the fetlocks. The track is fast and there is no telling what is liable to happen. One veteran fan commented, "With the form I have seem around here this week I would hate to have to make a choice...
Train, who jumped to the Junior League after a disappointing showing last year, was unable to name a replacement immediately. His squad will be out to snap a 23-years losing streak today, but Paper-worker Prexy, veteran Crimson mentor suffering from redtapeworms, predicted, "If I can crawl out of the files, we'll take them...
...Crime, traditionally heavy favorites, will field a traumatic lineup. Wily staffers have filled the holes left by the loss of such stars as R. Sibley "The Cat" Ludenderff and "Mad Anthony" Carodny with new blood. The rags-to-riches nine will pit the skill of veteran receiver Backyard Stupor and hurler A. P. "Benjy" Farb against the speed of Olivoyl Quislin, who is the probably mound choice of the alien ibismen...