Word: breakers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...comics had become a maker & breaker of publishing empires. The New York Daily News-Chicago Tribune Syndicate worked out the formula (it was the late Captain Joe Patterson's) of a balanced comic page to lure readers: The Gumps for "gossip, realistic family life; Harold Teen, youth; Smitty, cute-kid stuff; Winnie Winkle, girls; Moon Mullins, burly laughter; Orphan Annie, sentiment . . . Dick Tracy, adventure and the fascination of the morbid and criminal; Terry, adventure of the most up-to-date, sophisticated type; Smilin' Jack, flying and sex; Gasoline Alley . . . life itself...
...gallons of cold drinks. Toronto fathers & mothers hustled their children back from vacations a week early, to take in the big show before school opened. Sightseers showed up from all over the Dominion. No one was disappointed. The Canadian National Exhibition at Toronto was a record-breaker. On the opening day of the first exhibition since the war, 103,500 showed...
...maintain for them. Of course, as in any team sport, that isn't the whole story; but situations may arise, as they did in the four-mile regatta with Yale, that the stroke must carry the shell when his mates are having trouble. In that particular back-breaker, too little pre-race warmup caused physical complications about half-way through among the men behind Cunningham, who practically bore the weight of the speeding shell by himself until they had regained their form. He did not feel the strain until the last mile when he tried to raise a spring...
...physical instructor in the Navy. His time then was 2:19.5, which still stands on the books until his new marks are officially accepted. But by now Joe can do better while scarcely getting out of breath. Last week's race was his fourth record-breaker of this season...
...team will be running no mean squad. Andover boats a team buildt up on a couple of years of experience as well as a potential record breaker for the 1000 yard run in Henry Stoltman, who will be running against the clock as well as Harvard in an attempt to slince the course record. Jerry Leeming, captain of the Freshman cross country team in the fall, will be the Crimson contender most likely to show his lteels in this event...