Word: winner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...winner of the Lee Wade prize receives $50; the Boylston prizes are $50 and $35 apiece...
Aside from entering Rawstrom in the furlong and quarter-mile, the Gymnast coach, Charlie Silvia, won't have much to offer the Crimson mermen. Frank Powers ought to keep Rawstrom busy in the 220, while Captain Rusty Greenhood is a sure winner over Bob Monerly and Carlton Condon in the dive...
...Connie Mack." That day the surviving member of this trio, Connie Mack (Cornelius McGillicuddy), celebrated his 76th birthday, went down to his office just as he has done for the 38 years he has been managing the Philadelphia Athletics, announced that he hopes to have one more pennant winner before he retires from baseball-at a date still unspecified...
Typical report from a local Plant-to-Prosper winner: "We tore down an old outhouse and saved the roofing and flooring to build an additional room to our home. . . . We set out seven shade trees and 25 fruit trees . . . have taken better care of the hens, cows, pigs, garden and truck patches. . . ." One Missouri tenant farmer's wife was so enthusiastic she sewed "Plant-to-Prosper" on her son's basketball uniform...
Married. Captain Angus Walters, 55, peppery skipper of the full-rigged Canadian schooner Bluenose, winner of the International Fishermen's Trophy (TIME, Nov. 7); and Mildred Butler, 28-year-old Nova Scotian; in Halifax. In Boston on his wedding trip, Captain Walters admitted that he was also trying to collect $6,000 in expense money because the race had been delayed. Said he: "The people of Canada will consider it an insult if payment isn't made soon...