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Coach Tom Bolles' tentative first beat, which also tried a brief spin earlier during one of the temporary thaws, took an easy run down to the head of the basin, with Captain Spike Chace at stroke, John Clark 7,Doug Erickson 6, John Radway 5, John Senior 4, Dudley Talbot 3, Chandler Hovey, Jr. 2, David Scull, bow, and George Shortlidge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CREWS TAKE TO RIVER IN EARLY TRIAL RUNS | 3/8/1938 | See Source »

...last client standing white-faced near the wall. Ironical was the fact that during the interview a postman had delivered an $8 relief check at Joseph Scutellaro's house, more ironical, the weapon with which Joseph Scutellaro, by his own confession, had dealt a mortal wound: the long spike on which Poormaster Barck stuck rejected applications...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Last Client | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

...Harold G. Hoffman this week began a syndicated daily column in several New Jersey newspapers. Wrote Columnist Hoffman: "This column . . . represents the outcropping of frustrated desire. When a youngster I wrote a column of fishing news for my home-town weekly. . . ." The ex-Governor's syndicators, hoping to spike rumors that Mr. Hoffman might use the column in fishing for 1940 reelection, promised that it "never will be used to foster any personal ambitions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Fisherman Hoffman | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

Soon Jack Morgan decided to keep the dwindling food and water, laid in for a two-day trip, to himself. On the fourth day, Christmas Eve, thoroughly scared, Spernak and Home managed to steal up to Jack Morgan, fell him with a marlin spike. In the scuffle he went overboard, into the shark-infested waters where he had thrown dead Dwight Faulding. Then, some 500 miles away from home off the Mexican coast, without fuel for the auxiliary engines and a mainsail disabled by storms. the skipperless Aafje turned to drift back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Paradise Lost | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

...weeks since the original FTC decision trying hard to get it altered. Last week Erwin Feldman, counsel for the National Association of House Dress Manufacturers, tried a new tack by storming that fibre identification is due to Japanese propaganda spread by the International Silk Guild in an attempt to spike rayon sales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Miss Jaffray & Japan | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

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