Word: slightly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Drucker and Al Mathis swept the backstroke 100 in 1:9.5 with almost no opposition, but Rog Wilcox and Max Kraus were nipped by Greg' Jameson in a 1:10.2 breaststroke. That is by far and away the weakest spot on the team, and unfortunately there is slight hope of much improvement. Art Bosworth has not yet reported and will be of great aid to the team both in free-style and backstroke...
...Worried citizens feared a repetition of the great pandemic of 1918-19, but the Army's Surgeon General James Carre Magee assured them that it was not the same sort of flu. Despite the wildfire contagion, symptoms everywhere were mild. Most of the victims had only slight fever, sniffles, headache, sore limbs, backache, a tight feeling in the chest. Although Los Angeles had about 50,000 cases, only 70 deaths had been reported at week's end. mostly among people who were finished off by pneumonia. But in many communities, daily life was completely disrupted. Local disruptions...
...Then a slight warm wind arose. In four hours the ice was gone. There were no major catastrophies, no fires of consequence, no deaths. Amarillo stirred like a somnambulist awakening, estimated its damages in the millions. Four days passed before telephone and telegraph communications made Amarillo once again part of the outside world...
...more ambitions men have chances to move. It is inevitable that some men are going to take those chances; they would whether or not they became Nieman Fellows. The Fellowship marks them out and increases the prospect of better offers, but I should like to point out how slight has been the movement of Nieman Fellows to New York...
Dante is not the old-style of magician who merely palms cards. Although he proudly boasts there isn't a blush in his show, Dante himself has a captivating stage personality and with a slight change of subject matter could fit well into a "Panama Hattie." Of course there are bound to be slow moments (like the finale which features Uncle Sam and a blonde subbing for the Statue of Liberty), but you will never be able to forget, that you are watching the world's greatest magician...