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...Brazil, and to an Ash Wednesday welcome that well in advance was being built to heroic proportions. Some 6,000 workers from Rio de Janeiro were bound for the port of Santos to greet his ship. Bus caravans from all over Brazil are scheduled to take thousands more to cheer the prodigal's return...
Brown lunged for the lead at 13:34 of the second half, when Young scored on a fast break and subsequent free throw. That made it a 38-38 tie; Harvard took a time out to get organized; and the local fans began to cheer the Bruin quintet on. Borchard put the Crimson momentarily back in the lead, but a minute later came the fast break led by Cingiser, whose 19 points moved him to within 44 points of Brown's all-time record (with two games...
Almost as big as Hays is Ronnie Gilbert, the only female member of the group, has a reasonably pleasant voice, but she bounces around on stage too much. A plump woman in sedate dress gyrating like a 16-year-old cheer-leader looks ludicrous, and embarrasses. Although her enthusiasm is contagious and creditable, she comes across better on records than in person...
...hurly-burly of New York reform politics. They run for Congress-Duggan as campaign manager and Avery, of course, as candidate. As Duggan churns out press releases from a mimeograph machine in a rented hotel ballroom, .his beautiful wife is entering a suite in the same hotel to cheer Avery, who has twisted his neck severely by throwing back his head in a Rooseveltian campaign laugh. Duggan bitterly re-creates the scene: the pink, passive hero, the innocent back rub, the tide of passion...
John McCormack was just 13 when his bricklayer father died. Besides his mother, there were two younger brothers, Edward ("Knocko") and Daniel, to support. (Nine other brothers and sisters died in infancy or youth.) Mary Ellen O'Brien McCormack was a strapping woman with a great heart, who cheer fully took on the burdens of her friends and neighbors. "She was the Mary Worth of the district," says her grandson, Edward McCormack Jr. "The one whom everybody came to with their troubles, arbiter of disputes, nurse of the sick, comforter of the oppressed." But Mary Ellen could not manage...