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Scornfully, he rejected suggestions that this country pull back its warships, planes and merchantships into home waters and concentrate solely on a last-ditch of the United States. He said this is "foolish" and a "fatuous policy...
With brilliant individual performances by Del Ames and Finn Ferner, the Crimson managed to pull into fourth, place after the first day of racing at the I. S. U. meet at Middlebury yesterday. Ferner took fourth in the slalom...
Hoping to pull at least a third place out of the bag compared to fourth in the ISU competition last year, are eight members of the ski team: Captain Finn Ferner, Del Ames, Hank Bigelow Rog Wilson, Lin Burton, Tom Winship, Bungle King, and Freshman Dunc Reid...
...Vagabond felt something hard and unyielding below him; looking down, he made out the dim outlines of the chair, its arms surrounding him familiarly. That's where it is, his mind said to itself automatically, and as the walls bowed and nodded and pirrouetted their assent, Vag tried to pull himself together...
...Association of Broadcasters' code, adopted in 1939 (TIME, July 24, 1939), allows three minutes, 15 seconds out of every daytime quarter hour; two minutes, 30 seconds out of every nighttime quarter hour. The extra 45 seconds in daytime may account for much of soap opera's sales pull; also for much suffocating boredom. The merciless unction of long, repetitive commercials struck both U.S. listeners and U.S. advertisers as downright incongruous in the days just after Pearl Harbor. The advertisers' reaction apparently wore off, but a certain public feeling remained, especially about commercials that try to capitalize...