Word: winners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pictures will be examined by Billy Rose and John Powers, and the results of the examination will filter back to Cambridge in time for the dance at Kirkland House. The winner of the contest will become the leader of the ROTC for a day, while the runner-ups will be regimental sub-commanders as a consolation prize...
Very, very occasionally, Breneman lays an egg. Once he presented a wishing ring (a daily broadcast feature) to a "lucky number" winner in the audience, with the request that she make an immediate and personal wish. Said the woman "I want babies, twin babies!" Breneman choked, reddened, could say nothing. "Well," snapped his supposed victim, "what are you going to do about...
...Room's crystal chandeliers were strung with bouquets of United Nations flags. There were stiff little luncheons with entertainment by Peoria's best singing talent. Seven girls in long square-necked dinner gowns, sang a "Hymn of Peace." Prizes were awarded for an organizational song, a slogan (winner: "Union Now-a Last Peace Tomorrow"), a symbol (winner: a whiffletree...
...four-ounce-glove fight-and Crosby-lasted 77 rounds, five hours and five minutes.* The winner was a St. Louis printer named Harry Sharpe, whose rewards were 1) the Missouri lightweight championship, 2) a side bet of $500, 3) eleven months in jail for violating an anti-prizefight law. (Crosby was let off.) Both men had trained so well they were still slugging in the 76th round, when they knocked each other down simultaneously. Crosby banged his head and got up dazed. Sharpe put him down for the count a few minutes later...
Died. Professor Pieter Zeeman, 78, Dutch winner of 1902's Nobel Prize in physics (for studies of light under magnetism); in Amsterdam. In 1933 he was preferred to Albert Einstein by the electors of the French Academy of Sciences...