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...fortunate coincidence, just about the time Irish got basketball going at the Garden, a West Virginian named Clair Bee took over basketball coaching at Brooklyn's Long Island University. L.I.U. basketball teams have always been excellent, sometimes terrific; they have won the Invitation Tournament twice and played two seasons undefeated. Bee's boys, with their tremendous local draw, have been a solid anchor to windward for Irish...
...Around 1,500,000: Mrs. Porter's Girl of the Limberlost and Laddie; John Fox Jr.'s Trail of the Lonesome Pine; Owen Wister's The Virginian; Harold Bell Wright's The Winning of Barbara Worth; Jack London's Call of the Wild; J. L. Hurlbut's Story of the Bible; Wells's Outline of History...
...Virginian named Lingan Alan Warren to put his ideas into practice. They set up the MacMarr chain in the Pacific Northwest, merged it with Safeway, later acquired Sanitary Stores in the South. Last year the Merrill-Warren chains grossed $399,322,000, earned...
...group will also participate in a Virginian statewide musical festival along with the Harvard Glee Club, the Duke University Men and Women's Glee Club, and the Choral Society of the State Teachers College...
...seven years Washington correspondents have noted and written much of Secretary Early's blunders. An imposing, hot-tempered, red-faced Virginian (distant kinsman of Confederate General Jubal A. Early), a onetime newspaperman himself, and President Roosevelt's press secretary since 1933, he has also been the White House spokesman. Once he delivered what sounded like a Presidential rebuke to Henry Wallace for urging the Third Term. Once he relayed the President's views on the Monroe Doctrine in terms so confusing that neither State Department papers, editorials or his own cryptic statements later could clear them...