Word: walle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sumner T. Pike, 55-year-qld businessman and broker, who ran away from his Maine home, went to sea, sold oil industry equipment in Texas, joined Boston's Stone & Webster, later Wall Street's Case, Pomeroy & Co., served as a Republican member of the Securities and Exchange Commission. He resigned from SEC last March with a note to Harry Truman: "I am getting stale...
...greatest surprise were the Russians, who acted more jovially than at any previous international gathering. There were some flurries, such as their request for added police protection of their Glen Cove, L.I. estate, and the occasion, at Flushing, when indomitable Foreign Minister Molotov almost walked straight into a wall where he thought a door should have been. But it was perhaps typical of the new Russian mood that he smilingly permitted himself to be guided along the right path by Interpreter Pavlov, thus avoiding a major clash of unyielding forces...
Raiding a purse snatcher's hideout, Paris police were startled to find a signed Utrillo hanging on the wall. That started them on the trail of what may be the biggest ring of art forgers in recent years. Last week Paris cops nabbed the artist who forged the Utrillos. She was one Mme. Juliette Claude La Tour-"Zizi" to her Montmartre friends...
Roughness was the keynote of the day, with the first Crimson score coming directly after two successive roughing penalties. Cleo also had a 15-yarder called against him for forcing a H.C. back into the wall, but close observers attributed it more to boos from the Holy Cross side than to Cleo's play. Fortunately, the Harlowmen came away without injuries. HARVARD HOLY CROSS Coulson, l.e. r.e., Roberts Dewey, l.t. r.t., Strojny Rodis, l.g. r.g., Cregar Fisher, c. c., Kruoff Drvaric, r.g. l.g., Reilly Davis, r.t. l.t., Parker Florentino, r.e., l.e., Dieckelman Goethals, q.b. q.b., Ball O'Donnell, l.h.b. r.h.b...
...only defensive tactics on which the Crimson forward wall was able to equal the feats of the Purple bruisers. With a few well-scattered exceptions, the Cantab line kept the H.C. ground attack throttled, with so many of Harlow's linemen looking good that it was almost impossible to select any standouts...