Word: washing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile the hooraw had proved embarrassing not only to Ben Lear but to the 110th and the Army. Last week in Olympia, Wash., soldiers from Fort Lewis tossed out mash notes to girls ("Please write to this lonely soldier," etc.) tagged with the postscript: "Don't tell Lieut. General Ben Lear." From 70 noncoms of the 250th Coast Artillery went a challenge to the 110th to a 15-mile marching race. Wrote the 250th: "If we don't finish first without having to write our Congressmen, we'll let you yoo-hoo at us." At a bathing...
...survivors were a pair of Bangor Tigers, if ever there were: 28-year-old Joe Connor of Cloquet, Minn., an upstart college boy (University of Minnesota), who at the 1937 championship made the old loggers look like sissies; and 28-year-old Jimmy Herron, boom man for a Longview (Wash.) lumber mill, who was crowned "King of the White Water" at the last championship meet in 1938. Champion Herron, who once doubled for Cinemactor El Brendel in the log-driving scenes in God's Country and the Woman, had a tough time defending his crown. He won the first...
Huff & cuff as they might last week, the girl-birlers failed to get rid of Miss Malott. In the final, hoofing like a jitterbug, she took petite Bette Berkley, an 18-year-old stenographer from the sawmill town of Longview, Wash., for two straight falls...
Offering the services of a combined filling station and roadside hot-dog stand, Chicago's new 1,500-car Drive-In is a gaudy affair. There are white-uniformed attendants to wash dirty windshields for a better view of the screen, and to check patrons' cars for oil, gas, water, air. There are also comely females in white satin slacks to peddle food, beverages, programs...
...Library of Congress has gone into the radio business. To a dozen radio stations-from Brooklyn, N.Y. to Yakima, Wash.-the Library last week had sold records of canal-boat ballads, loggers' songs, spirituals, blues, "hollers," recorded all over the land during the past 30 years...