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Yale bounced back after that score, going 76 yards in three plays, to re-assert its decided superiority. This particular touchdown proved what Harvard fans had suspected from the start: Yale was not only better, but lots better...

Author: By Richard B. Kline and Hiller B. Zobel, S | Title: Powerful Elis Romp, 41-14; Clasby Hurt, Will Play Again | 11/24/1952 | See Source »

...lines of contest fixed in a way which might make it hard for Mr. Stevenson to fulfill his promise of a change in tone. His friends say that this is an easy task for a determined man with the White House as his base; his opponents will assert that the inertia of the loyal partisan is a most formidable force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Whose Adlai? | 10/27/1952 | See Source »

...recommendations assert "that it shall be considered unethical under any circumstances to scout any team, by any means whatsoever, except in regularly scheduled games. This prohibits "any attempt to scout practice sessions," and makes the coach directly responsible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coaches' Committee Bans Touting, Complaining, and Practice Scouting | 9/22/1952 | See Source »

...race," said he, "primarily because I believe that peace may well be at stake." He described the force of aggressive Communism, which with "America as its final and chief target" had steadily moved closer "to the sources of supply on which our existence depends." Earnestly he denounced "those who assert that America can live solely within its own borders . . . those who act as though we had no need for friends to share in the defense of freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Ike's Third Week | 6/30/1952 | See Source »

...cannot, and does not, cause violent emotions today. At least the Solid South does not look upon Griffith's opus as a delightful historical pageant, but rather takes it as a credo and a profession of the White Man's Supremacy, and the need for that supremacy to assert itself--lest it all happen again. After recent "race" incidents in Detroit, St. Louis, Cicero, Cairo, Ill., and San Francisco, one should not say that Northern audiences are much more objective. I have my doubts about Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DE GUSTIBUS | 5/5/1952 | See Source »

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