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...couple of comments, made by the head coaches of the two squads shortly after the game ended, tell the essentially simple story of the contest. "Brown was good," John Yovicsin said firmly; "Harvard was hurting," Alva Kelley replied. No one of the 17,000-odd fans who saw the game is likely to dispute either of these remarks...
...small blood samples (less than two teaspoonfuls) taken from them to test their sobriety after highway accidents. Fred Pfizenmaier, 50, of Clay Center, asked $10,000 for his blood, which tested at 185 mg. of alcohol in 100 cc. of blood (150 mg. being the legal intoxication line). But Alva Nichols, 41, of Eldorado, wanted $75,000 for his sample, which tested at a riotously drunk 285 mg. after a three-car crash in which one man was killed. Purpose of the suits: to test Kansas' law which says that anybody driving on the state's highways...
...minutes on the ground stretched into hours, for LaGuardia was hemmed in by fog and snow to within three-quarters of a mile's visibility, and the unrelenting snow had piled up on the big wings of Northeast's DC-6A. Flight 823's Captain Alva Marsh, 48, a 19-year transport veteran, stood by waiting for clearance. Finally Pilot Marsh checked the weather again, decided to go. It was 6:01 p.m. when the plane lumbered down the runway into the darkness, lifted heavily off the ground and, slowly gaining altitude, went into an inexplicable left...
...will not be easy. Bruin coach Alva Kelly, who remarked this week that he didn't have to get his team up for Harvard because they did it themselves, brings a team into the Stadium that is well suited for exploiting the Crimson's two glaring weaknesses. First, Brown is probably more effective in the air than on the ground, and second, it has the breakaway speed in Dick Beland and Jack McTigue to take advantage of the varsity's slowness...
...Jersey's ex-Governor Charles Edison, son of matchless Inventor Thomas Alva Edison, took the wrappings...