Word: groves
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...convention. This week, as a polite gesture to the assembled contesters, CBS's Professor Quiz will entertain on his program two hotshots of the organization: paper-thin, 28-year-old Everett Lane, founder and past president, and Joan Lambert, head of the All-American Contestar School of Willow Grove, Pa., which has about 2,000 students...
...great grove leans to wind, past...
Boston night clubs are not so hot. The Southland is big, noisy, and has first-rate bands. The Cocoanut Grove and the Beachcomber are also cut on a lavish bias--but the floor shows at all of them are consistently poor. The only good floor show in town is to be found at the dirt-cheap Little Dixie, located in the center of Boston's Harlem, but it's not the sort of place to take your grandmother...
...racket. Away from the speaker's stand, as far as he could see, stretched the shirt-sleeved crowd, under the maples and oaks whose lower branches were cut away to lengthen the view. Sunlight filtered through the green upper branches and pierced the dust that rose in the grove. The crowd cheered through Representative Charles Halleck's introduction of Speaker Joe Martin, cheered through Joe Martin's introduction of Wendell Willkie, cheered Willkie for ten minutes before he could begin. They wanted a hell-fire-and-brimstone speech after their long wait; it would have been easy...
...nickels and dimes), enough luggage for a round-the-world cruise, a radio, shotgun, suit of clothes and a watch whose dial spells F.Fitzsimmons. Only other active major-leaguers who have won 200 games or more: Carl Hubbell of the Giants, Ted Lyons of the White Sox, Lefty Grove of the Red Sox, Red Ruffing of the Yankees...