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...chess team beat the Wells Chess Club, 4 to 1, yesterday in Boston. Yank Wyse, Charlie Cutler, Larry Caster, and Allen Calhamer...
...World War II, more than 40 U.S. civilian war correspondents and soldier correspondents for Stars and Stripes and Yank were killed...
...depicting sad-eyed mongrels in various stages of "torture." But last week the Examiner's campaign backfired. On Page One, in a top head adjoining the antivivisection campaign story, the Examiner ran a story hailing a medical discovery made at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital.* The paper had to yank it hastily after discovering that the findings were developed from experiments on dogs. The same day, the Examiner headlined a long-distance interview with the Rev. Carl C. Rasmussen, ex-councilman who had written the wartime dog-pound ordinance. As the Examiner told it, Rasmussen, who was in Des Moines...
...mates. The film-makers were wise in keeping almost all the play's lines, as well as the story, intact. Lachie, who is convincingly and warmly played by Richard Todd, enters the hospital without knowing exactly what is wrong with him. The men in his ward--Digger, Kiwi, Tommy, Yank, and Blossom, the Basuto--all know he is doomed, and do their best to make things easy...
...Progressive Party's second annual convention headed for Chicago last week, their chattering political machine seemed on the verge of disintegrating in a cloud of steam like a vaudeville Ford of the 1920s. A faction headed by former Assistant U.S. Attorney General O. John Rogge was threatening to yank the Communists out of the driver's seat-an operation which seemed likely to shatter the weakened chassis and send Henry Wallace flying skyward in a spray of worn piston rings...