Word: broads
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Most Rev. Joseph Kiwanuka is everything that a bishop should be. His dignity and calm inspire automatic respect, his words are simple and wise, his broad smile is warm with charity for men. But he might still be just plain Joe Kiwanuka, African tribesman, if he had not happened to be reading a book one day when a Roman Catholic missionary priest came to visit his native village...
Last week Africa's black, broad-smiling Bishop Kiwanuka ended a crowded four months' visit to the U.S. He was impressed by Manhattan's "forest of tall buildings" and the great bridges that span U.S. rivers. He was less impressed by a professional hockey game ("too rough"). But he was most impressed of all by the enthusiasm for himself and his cause which he found everywhere he went...
What's Ham? Affable, broad-shouldered George Boyce, 52, had begun his teaching career in Eastern prep schools (St. Paul's, the Lake Placid School, the Chestnut Hill Academy). He had been working with Navajos for more than nine years. At Brigham City he lost no time getting the wheels turning. Within six months, with a $3,700,000 appropriation, he had remodeled every room in the hospital, built a gymnasium and seven other new buildings, organized a staff of 130. By January, George Boyce was ready for his first pupils at Intermountain Indian School...
...Hardy & Hunted." In Egypt Maclean joined the S.A.S. (Special Air Service), a select, hand-picked force of parachute commandos who were dropped into the North African desert to destroy enemy installations. In 1942, Maclean, by then a captain, was sent to Persia, where in broad daylight he kidnaped Collaborationist General Zahidi and popped him into a plane bound for Palestine. It was ro wonder that when Prime Minister Churchill asked for the appointment of "a daring Ambassador-leader" to contact Tito's "hardy and hunted guerrillas," the choice fell on parachuting Brigadier Fitzroy Maclean...
Carter will take the broad jump, with Court Ellis second, and Kelley third. Kelley and Ellis can very well give the Crimson's Dick Barwise trouble, with a three-way tie at six feet a possibility in the high jump...