Word: winners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York's Representative Walter Gresham ("Ham") Andrews ought to know as much about the Army as anyone in Congress. A Princeton man ('13), a major of infantry and winner of the D.S.C. in World War I, he has spent most of his 17 years in Congress on military committees. He is now chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. Nevertheless, last week he flunked an Army General Classification Test for enlisted...
...winner: an Italian named Giuseppe Farina, an old hand at taking sharp turns, who spun over the 318 kilometers at an average 101.3 k.p.h. Giuseppe's take: 730,000 francs, two silver cups, a bunch of roses wrapped in cellophane...
...Crimson, 57 to 51, in a dual meet on the Charles, and placing third, just ahead of Harvard in the Ivy League championships in a later regatta. Brown, the most powerful naval force in the East, were masters of their home waters in this meet, riding home the winner with Yale following them in for a second...
Last week 51 New York schoolboys excitedly prepared for a visit to the capital. They were the winners of an annual reward given to the best school safety patrolmen by the Automobile Club of New York. One, an honor-medal winner, would meet the President. All of them would see the sights, march in a parade...
...Jamaica, last year's Preakness winner, Faultless, carried Calumet's devil-red and blue silks home by a nose in the Gallant Fox Handicap ($60,300). The horse he beat was his stablemate, Fervent (second money: $15,000). Calumet Farm's receipts...