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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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Skiers Start Training For 11-Meet Schedule | 11/6/1945 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: New Under Secretary | 11/5/1945 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Harmony House | 10/22/1945 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SKI TEAM PREPARES TO COMPETE IN ALL MEETS | 10/9/1945 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 5/22/1945 | See Source »

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