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...Field, and the score was 21-7 Harvard. But then the luck of Jordan ran out. Dartmouth upset the varsity 14-9, and on a beautiful Saturday in late October a very poor Bucknell eleven scored three times in the third period, was robbed of two downs by an absent-minded referee, and tied the varsity...
...John the Baptist that poets have been looking for since Harriet Monroe [the magazine's founder] died"-and agreed to do a fund-raising reading next year. Among the sponsors for the supper: Pierre du Pont III, William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan, Daniel R. Topping, Charles Edison. Conspicuously absent was Adlai Stevenson's ex-wife Ellen Borden Stevenson, longtime Poetry Patroness who resigned from the magazine's board 18 months...
Reports from New Haven indicate that yesterday the team finally snapped out of a week-long Princeton-caused doldrums. In its last contact scrimmage Yale displayed spirit and desire which had been conspicuously absent...
...depth of the Crimson squad has saved it this season. Several injuries cost the team the services of key starters, but an effective substitute was almost always available. Only two players counted on as starters at the beginning of the season will be absent Saturday. Inside right Dick Fisher and goalie Lindsay Fischer have already played their last games for the Crimson, but Munro has no worries about those positions. Elliot Finkelstein has a string of 205 consecutive scoreless minutes as a goalie, and either Charlie MacVeagh or Bill Lingelbach can be counted on at inside right...
Twice more on successive days, Red Socialist strategy saved the government from serious embarrassment. A government budget bill was about to be defeated because about 40 government supporters were absent. A Nenni henchman, while publicly opposing the budget, sent 30 or 40 Communist and Socialist members out of the hall to match the missing Christian Democrats. The Segni government was saved from a defeat. Philosophizing on his new strategy (which Italians are calling the Strategy of the Smile), Nenni said: "The slow disintegration of the majority is turning the Houses of Parliament into a sort of jungle...