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Fresh from a cross-country concert tour, Metropolitan Soprano Helen Traubel turned up in Burbank, Calif, to check on one of her sideline investments: the hapless St. Louis Browns, midway through their spring tune-up. Part-Owner Traubel, in good voice, gave a pep talk to the players, then retired to a rooter's bench to watch her team win (6 to 5) an exhibition game with the Cleveland Indians...
...Yard stereotype of the Nieman Fellow--that happy-go-lucky character who comes into class midway and leaves after smoking a cigarette--is taking a beating. The 1950-51 Nieman Fellows are unconsciously being saturated with a Niagara of intellectual atmosphere...
Martin was later put in charge of the naval air station on Midway Island. In 1943 and 1944 he commanded the light carrier San Jacinto...
...with bits of scrap iron stolen from the prison workshop. Crawling painfully along the cramped tube, he carried the dirt out in his clothes and flushed it down the cell toilet. Midway, fresh-water seepage formed a narrow chamber high enough for a man to stand in. He matted it with old clothes and rags to prevent a cave...
...House basketball season passed the midway mark last night, Leverett blasted Adams, and Winthrop edged Lowell in the 'A' League. In a 'B' contest, Adams turned the tables on Leverett for a last-minute victory...