Word: waters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Excitement flared in the Lowell courtyard last night as faithful moon-watchers greeted a House-sponsored eclipse with cheers, water-bombs, and fire-crackers. Competing with the moon were a string of railway flares; a musical setting was supplied by a Sousaphone rendition of "Claire de Lune...
Swimmer Ris was in Florida. At Daytona Beach's Welch Pools, he sized up his competition for the National A.A.U. zoo-yd. race with a clear water eye. His big feet gripping the tiled rim of the pool, Wally knew just how he would swim this one-in the same slow-starting style that keeps his friends' and coaches' hearts in their mouths until the last...
With the gun, he launched himself into the water like a spent torpedo. He rolled a spray-spattered eye at the four other sprinters splashing in other lanes until he saw whom he had to beat. Then, head down, he started churning, with a fast arm but a slow, deep kick that is uncommon to sprinters. A pinwheel fast turn and a lung-busting finish did the trick as usual. When Wally's big hand touched the tile 51.4 seconds after the start, he could add another A.A.U. championship to his collection of titles (fortnight ago, he was voted...
Died. Willard Henry Dow, 52, president (since 1930) of gigantic Dow Chemical Co. (600 products); in a private airplane crash; near London, Ont. From a modest beginning by Dow's father in 1897, Dow Chemical became the largest producer of magnesium (mined from sea water) in World War II, did a $170 million business last year in industrial and agricultural chemicals, plastics, pharmaceuticals and magnesium...
...personal portrait," she explains, " 'feminine,' anecdotal, diverting, full of complaints and gossip . . . Perhaps they expect to hear 'laments of 'all that has been suffered' living with a man like Diego. But I do not believe the banks of a river suffer for letting the water...