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...naval power snapped in the historic Battle of Leyte Gulf (TIME, Nov. 10, 1958), the Japanese turned full power on their last desperate tactic, the suicidal kamikaze corps. If books had theme songs, the kamikaze Song of the Warrior might serve as an apt motif for this 13th volume of Samuel Eliot Morison's massive U.S. naval history of World...
...following a crushing 18-51 loss to Brown, was fairly impressive, however. Competing against Penn's Ernest Tracy and Roy Rissinger, two of the East's better runners, the varsity rose to the occasion and whipped the Quakers, 23 to 43. Columbia trailed with 74. Fitzgerald, after coming in 13th against the Bruins, rallied for a fine second-place showing and almost caught Tracy with a stirring last-mile charge...
...months. The plot is just a house of comic greeting cards, but Chodorov and Fields, who also wrote the script, have stacked them up with impressive skill. David Niven and Mitzi Gaynor, it develops, are a big-city couple in the five-figure set who are celebrating their 13th anniversary. All goes well until Husband Niven gives his in-laws the likkered-up lowdown on what used to happen in that little old hotel before they were married. When the smoke clears, wife is locked in her bedroom, husband is battering down the door, and daughter is standing bare-kneed...
...Quaker backfield is blatantly reminiscent of the Yale quartet which two years ago led the 54-0 slaughter over the varsity. Headed by Fred Doelling, 13th in the nation in rushing with 384 yards, it has the fastest set of running backs in the league...
...Fitzgerald, grimly determined after a 13th-place showing a week ago, led the Crimson by taking a close second behind Quaker Ernest Tracy. Fitzgerald's great closing rush made it seem that he might overhaul the Penn ace, but his bid fell three seconds short. Tracy's winning time was 26:10 for the five-mile distance...