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Though he had never wilted before, high-handed Avery Brundage melted before Canada's hot wrath. He was ready to admit after a day or so that "extenuating circumstances" might even permit Barbara Ann to keep her car. But Canada's pin-up girl was taking no chances. Said she: "It would be selfish of me to keep the car and lose a chance to bring honor to Canada...
...good start by buying the first poppy of the Veterans of Foreign Wars' 1947 sale from six-year-old Saundra Fay Hall, gave her in return a little silver sombrero he had picked up in Mexico. Later that afternoon he drove over to the Bethesda Naval Hospital to pin a Medal of Merit with Oak Leaf Cluster on ailing, aging former Secretary of State Cordell Hull...
...learned to fly in the 1,200,000 miles he has ridden airlanes since 1929, Patterson looks, talks, and dresses more like the banker he started out to be. Small (5 ft. 5 in.), pale-faced, with sharp brown eyes, he usually dresses somberly in grey or black pin-striped suits, lets his dreams fly no higher than his staff of air economists permits...
...least twice before to kill Hitler. Other plotters had also tried. In March 1943, one almost succeeded by wrapping up a bomb and planting it in Hitler's airplane. The plane took off with Hitler aboard, but arrived at its destination safely. Reason: the bomb's firing pin had tripped, but the percussion...
...formal racing season, the one fifties are apt to get the feeling that they are Harvard's forgotten black sheep. They find themselves annually with a minimum of racing shells, the minimum being one, and a racing schedule which even an amateur could engrave on the head of a pin. This year, for example, their competitive season will be limited to three races unless they can make a deal with Tabor Academy, a victory over whom can't possibly add much to the prestige of any college crew...