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...team meets M.I.T. in the Basin next Sunday in the wind-up, a mile race for the championship. The meet may also end the season, since a trip to the national dinghy races is still in the tentative stage. The usual team, Charlie Hoppin, Jim Nathanson, Tim Brown, and George Robertson, sailed in yesterday's encounter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sailors Tie Engineers; Final Race on Sunday | 11/12/1952 | See Source »

...hand on the political front. Stevenson hinted that his father might be visiting Cambridge near the end of his current tour, when he hits Boston for a wind-up speech before the elections...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Borden Stevenson Defines Role in Father's Campaign | 9/26/1952 | See Source »

...Smash Wind-Up. But the story was too big to stop. Hardly had Actress Bennett finished her appearance as the forgiving wife when Husband Wanger, released on bail, turned up at home, packed up his belongings and moved out to a bachelor's apartment. In the hospital Lang maintained a stony silence, refused to press charges. But the Los Angeles district attorney promptly announced that he would bring the case to trial just the same, and Hollywood shuddered again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Triangle in Hollywood | 12/24/1951 | See Source »

...whole thing, said one worried publicity director, "is just the smash wind-up of Movietime, U.S.A."-the public-relations festival designed, among other things, to convince the country that Hollywood is just like Main Street anywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Triangle in Hollywood | 12/24/1951 | See Source »

...year ago, looks good both with a bat and behind the pads. Walsh catches batting practices for a while and then goes over to handle the slants of a gangling right-hander, Bob Ward, who may be McInnis' number one pitcher this season. "See the smooth flow from the wind-up to the follow-through," says the coach. "He's not stopping and pushing the ball like some of these boys...

Author: By Edward J. Coughlin, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 3/24/1951 | See Source »

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