Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other candidates declined except Kenneth Crawford. Meanwhile, the New York Guild had looked over Crawford's record, found him eminently suitable, seconded his nomination. So last week, by default, without the formality of an election, Postman Crawford became president of the American Newspaper Guild...
...spite of his radical opinions, Guildsman Crawford is an organizational conservative, agrees with many a Red-abhorring publisher that newsmen, who must write objectively, should not belong to an organization which expresses its beliefs publicly on controversial issues. In a statement accepting the Guild presidency last week he said: "It is my opinion that the Guild's primary function is to protect and improve the wages, hours and working conditions of newspaper people; . . . that it is not the Guild's business to reform the world or the world's newspapers." Like Broun, he intends to remain...
...Sullivan Memorial Trophy - annually awarded to that athlete who, "by his performance, example and influence as an amateur and a man, has done the most during the year to advance the cause of sportsmanship."* But even those heroes might be edged out by the winner for 1939, announced last week. It was 25-year-old Joe Burk, world's singles scull champion, unbeaten in 37 consecutive contests from 1937 through 1939, twice winner of the famed Diamond Sculls at Henley Regatta, and-as the Sullivan citation said-"a fine example of young American manhood...
...Burk is modest. Last week, when he was told of the award, his already pink cheeks turned the color of the apples on his dad's farm, and he said: "Alice Marble should have got it." But the 600 exathletes, sportswriters and promoters polled by the A. A. U. liked Joe best, gave second place to Charles ("Chuck") Fenske, Wisconsin miler, and third place to Tennist Marble. Their reasons for picking...
...said Joe last week, "don't paint wings on me. I'm just a farmer." Down on the Bridgeboro, N. J. farm is where Joe got his Galahad strength. Last week he got up at 5:30 every morning and worked till dusk pruning the farm's 7,000 apple and peach trees. But Joe is no hang-jaw hayseed. At the University of Pennsylvania his marks averaged...