Morgantown Hosts 36th Annual Scholastic Tournament
The 36th state scholastic tourney opens in Morgantown with defending champ Princeton 8 led by Coach Quentin Barnette and a field including West Virginia’s Flying Eyes and Hilltoppers. Coaches Dawson Chapman Feola boast optimism as eight finalists vie for their first crown, amid past champions such as Hunting East and Buck-Ups.
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Morgantown
Coac
Quentin Barnette
Paul
Biz) Dawson
West
Cones E. Brinkman
Wheels
J. R. van Meter
Beckley
Claris Washington Irving
Hilltoppers
Joan Morris
Pud Hudson
Stonewall Jackson
Jack Nicholas
Jackin Chapman
Logan
Aldo Paletti
Hunting East
Chapman
Frank Feola
Bucksoarmon
Pewoun
Loren Bra
W-I
Ex-convict questioned in wife’s suspected arson death
William C Mahurin, 52, held in Farmington Missouri for questioning in the death of his wife Charlotte Thelma Fisk 46 found burned at the farm home near Farmington. Police say she was Mahurin s eighth wife though records show only five marriages. International Soundphotos.
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William C. Mahurin
Farmington
St. Louis
Charlotte Thelma Fisk
International Soundphotos
Tempo meaning and medical term lessons in a grab bag
Quick study guide asks what tempo means in music, what a lesson signifies in medical phraseology, and which author wrote The Wayward Bus. It notes a nickelodeon, and what a tuffet is, plus birthday mentions for Maxwell Anderson Otto Preminger and Betty Smith, with a career and manners aside.
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Quicksat
Miss Muffet
Maxwell Anderson
Otto Preminger
Betty Smith
Brooklyn
Armenian born Kay aims for Broadway after radio start
Kay Armenianoogian, Armenian-born singer and former Army GI entertainer, began on Nashville radio on New Year’s Day 1944 and hopes to perform on Broadway. The piece notes neutrality pacts signed by 21 republics in 1936, Verdun’s 1916 French victory, and the Mayflower’s Plymouth harbor incident.
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William Holden
O'Fallon
Ill
Pasadena
Clifford Quets
Bill
Wings
Texas
Andrew
Ruth
Brenda Marshall
William Beedle
Kay Armen
Kate Smith
Kay
Nashville
Tenn
Verdun
France
Plymouth Harbor
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Paul von Hindenburg
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Oskar von Hindenburg
Uelzen
Denazification Commission
International
Otkwyn
Tocal
Latrobe Street
Sue Howell
Bakersfield
Cal
Capitol
Washigton
Senate
Frank P. Graham
University of North Carolina
J. Melville Broughton
Kerr Scott
North Carolina
Ham
Lilian Campbell
Central Press
Emerson
John Sreinbeck
Grafton
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