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Couple of centuries ago a word-minded fellow name of Noah Webster gave a definition of "contest" as an "earnest struggle for superiority." The word "earnest," of course, implies that each contestant has a chance to defeat, or at least to upset, his opponent. But another fellow name of Bob Kiphuth rewrote the dictionary...
Cylinder Head. Near Webster, S. Dak., after his radiator hose broke and let all the water out, beer-truck driver Henry Becht repaired the coupling, poured in 21 bottles of his load, foamed along...
...Krupa); Lionel Hampton; Earl Hines-Bitty Eckstine; Metronome All-Star Bands; Sidney Bechet; Jelly-Roll Morton; McKinney's Cotton Pickers; Great Trumpet Artists (Louis Armstrong, Bunny Berigan, Roy Eldridge, Bix Beiderbecke, Bunk Johnson, Dizzy Gillespie); Great Tenor Sax Artists (Coleman Hawkins, Chu Berry, Bud Freeman, Illinois Jacquet, Ben Webster, Charlie Ventura); Artie Shaw Favorites...
Actor Joe Dooley, 27, came to Broadway from Omaha by way of the U.S. Air Force. Last year he toured for three months with Margaret Webster's Shakespearean company, did four weeks in summer stock, picked up three bit parts in Manhattan's City Center productions. An understudy now in the Broadway production of Shaw's Saint Joan, Joe helps cover his Greenwich Village apartment rent by selling ties at Brooks Brothers...
Bridges supported Lend-Lease and Selective Service before World War II, ECA and the North Atlantic Treaty after it. Last week Styles Bridges moved his desk (which once served New Hampshire-born Daniel Webster) to the floor leader's spot in the first row of the G.O.P. side of the Senate Chamber, and settled down to a hard session's work...