Word: stringings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nearby manhole and gasped a few frenzied words. Minutes later, City Press had the first flash on Howey's beat-'the great Iroquois Theater fire, in which about 600 died. Hildy Johnson, the star reporter of the Chicago Herald-Examiner and The Front Page, scored a string of courtroom beats as a City Press legman by holding a stethoscope to the paper-thin walls of Chicago jury rooms. He got the eavesdropped verdicts to his city desk before the foreman handed them to the judge. Playwright Charles MacArthur, who with Ben Hecht wrote The Front Page, also...
Approximately $180 will go to Martin Boykan '51 of New York City and Dudley Hall who won the George Arthur Knight Prize for his "Nocturne for String Trio...
...Lawrence says that she became mechanically-minded in self-defense. Her father was a natural-born inventor with a long string of posthole diggers, folding lawn chairs, etc. to his credit. He was also in the rubber-tired buggy business, and his shop was a maze of band and rip saws and a big, power-driven sewing machine, which Mrs. Lawrence learned to operate when she was nine years old. Her father incidentally, was descended from a Parisian tailor who emigrated...
More was at stake than "Zillie" (who retains his seat in Parliament despite his expulsion from the party). Within the last fortnight over 60 Labor M.P.s have flouted direct party orders in voting on two major issues. With the recent string of Labor defeats in local contests, and a general election looming up next year, Attlee was at last forced to discipline the rebels. As the most cantankerous of them, Zilliacus had to go first...
...stable's extraordinary success, recognized by his fellow horsemen as the best in the business with something to spare, wasn't even there. Calumet's famed Benjamin A. (for Allyn) Jones, trainer of five Kentucky Derby winners and leading money-winning trainer last year, was in Kentucky handling another string of Calumet horses...