Word: winners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sailboats from 12 colleges will scud across the waters of the Charles River Basin this afternoon and tomorrow as New England undergraduate sailors hold their annual autumn regatta for the Schell Trophy. The winner will be in effect the fall intercollegiate sailing champion...
...riding's 29,000 registered voters had a choice of heroes. Gregg was a V.C. winner in World War I, a brigadier in War II. The Tory candidate, Ernest William Sansom, was a War II lieutenant general. The CCF candidate, 24-year-old Douglas MacMurray Young, a student at the University of New Brunswick, was a War II R.C.A.F. corporal...
...Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimifz went the honorary rank of chief of the Ottawa Indians of Michigan and the aboriginal monicker Be-Lea-Nage (The Winner). And to the nation from the Admiral went an announcement: he would retire from active duty around the middle of December...
Sepeshy had titled his prizewinning picture Marine Still Life. An intricate tangle of moorings, anchors, buoys and boats, it was laboriously pieced together from sketches made at Frankfort harbor, on Lake Michigan. Last year's winner-Karl Knath's abstract Gear-had been similarly composed from sketches of the Provincetown waterfront, but Sepeshy's was far more recognizable...
After the Boston press whooped it up last year for a kiss from a petite Wellesley underling as a winner's reward, which incidentally never was consummated, the Wellesley girls this year offer only "doughnuts or other suitable refreshments," with entertainment for the remainder of the day including hiking, boating on Lake Waban, and cycling for those who haven't had enough along the Turnpike grind...