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...other sport he tried. In basketball, Jackie was the leading scorer of the Pacific Coast Conference for two years. He did not play tennis much, but the first time he played in the Negro National Tournament, he got to the semifinals. Baseball was the game he had played longest and liked least...
...Christian Dior hustled to the U.S. last week to accept an award from Dallas' Neiman-Marcus Co. for his "outstanding service" to the clothing industry. For the counter-revolutionists he had a well-bred sneer. "The women who are loudest for short skirts will soon be wearing the longest dresses. I know very well the women. The short skirt was never a good fashion- very vulgar. The American women will accept the new fashions. You can never stop the fashions...
...ended fiscal 1947 with a $700 million surplus, but it had not been foreseen in the budget. The 1930-46 period is the longest in which the U.S. ever operated in the red. The infant republic broke about even on deficits and surpluses from 1789 to 1800. Thereafter, Treasury spokesman Albert Gallatin, a strong advocate of high taxes to cut public debt, got it into the habit of trying to stay in the black. The U.S. has managed surpluses in 95 of its 158 years, but has never been entirely out of debt. Lowest point of the national debt...
Young's critics thought they could see a large cinder in his own bloodthirsty eye. They said Young's Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co., a major hauler of coal, operates some of the longest, slowest freight trains in the country. Said William T. Faricy, president of the Association of American Railroads: "The C. & O.'s record for average freight train speed is nearly one-tenth below the [national] average." The cynical also thought they could discern a bid for public sympathy in Bob Young's imminent proxy battle for control of the Missouri Pacific Railroad...
...lived in Bucks County, Pa. since 1939, gave birth to a calf. It was all legitimate, however. The father, Imperial Regal Heritage of the Jersey Island Jerseys (he had left home on the last ship before the Nazis moved in), achieved his parenthood through artificial insemination over the longest distance yet recorded. Sealed in two thermos jugs and packed in ice, the Imperial Regal sperm (diluted to serve 100 cows) took the long way round to Australia. It was flown across the Atlantic in a British diplomatic pouch to prevent its being opened and spoiled by unsympathetic customs...