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Last Tuesday Mikkola put his team through a brisk six mile workout along the riverbank and on Wednesday followed up with speed work in the cinders. On paper, tomorrow's race should be fairly close, with the edge going to the engineers on the strength of their depth through the middle with Poorman, Goldie, and Ray. Running number two, three, and four for M. I. T., these men form the backbone of a well-balanced team...
...Angeles were awakened by six rapid, violent explosions. The Los Angeles Times building had been dynamited. In four minutes it was a roaring mass of flame. The Times's 46-year-old assistant general manager, Harry Chandler, who happened to be on the street outside, took brisk, efficient charge of the disaster. But when it was over, 20 mangled Times employes had died in the fire or leaped to their deaths on the pavement...
...force by midseason. On its $2-per-player premium rate covering hospital and doctor's bills, the company has lost money but gained much good will and many young life insurance prospects. Its statistics also enhance longevity prospects: one western schoolboy conference, for instance, now requires a brisk warm-up before the second-half whistle...
...Churchill spied Eleanor Roosevelt, in a flame-colored dress, with matching hat. "Hello, there," she said, and they began a brisk conversation, walking over to greet the Princess Alice, wife of Canada's rigidly correct Governor-General, the Earl of Athlone. Fala scurried about, sniffing the shoes of the famous...
Swift and elusive, they penetrated enemy territory almost at will, harassed outposts, kidnapped officers, captured fabulous booty. More important, their accurate reconnaissance figured in some of the South's major victories. Ranger Mosby is a brisk, readable account of their adventures and of their extraordinary leader...