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...team aspirants began training with Jaakko Mikkola's cross country runners yesterday afternoon for a long, 11-meet schedule beginning with the Lake Placid Carnival, December 27, and extending well into next March...
...Brigadier General in the reserves who had found the Army "a little hard to take at first" last week found himself in one of the Army's biggest jobs: Under Secretary of War. The one-star Under Secretary, who will soon be out of uniform: placid, moose-tall (6 ft. 5, 240 Ibs.) Kenneth Claiborne Royall...
Seventy-year-old Winston Churchill regarded the hubbub with a placid eye. Back from a Mediterranean holiday with 14 new watercolors and a coat of tan, the wartime Prime Minister had a new role in the new Parliament: leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition...
Although the team expects to specialize in the downhill and slalom events, jumpers and cross-country men are needed to round out the roster. The first real test will come with the Lake Placid Carnival in the latter part of December...
...story concerns an eager young cavalryman who rides three days and nights to warn the Czarina of a conspiracy against her life. Although her placid chancellor, whose only function seems to be to ferret out such plots and counter-plots, has this one well in hand, Catherine is glad to see the breathless soldier; she decides he will look good in a creamy white uniform and promotes him to the rank of general...