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...club represents a turnabout for Harvard and Yale, at least. Only a year ago Yale's Bob Hall reminded this department that there was no such thing as an Ivy League--it was an "Ivy Group." The Blue and the Crimson wanted to avoid any organized pact which would commit them to playing Cornell with any regularity, and in the case of Penn, never. Harvard and Yale weren't being stuffy. They simply did not want to get trounced annually nor recruit a team capable of meeting Dr. Stassen's legions on even ground...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 2/26/1952 | See Source »

...castle's Chapel of St. George to perform the last rites. The Primate spoke the old words from the Book of Common Prayer: "Forasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty God of His great mercy to take unto Himself the soul of our dear brother here departed, we therefore commit his body to the ground; earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust." From a silver bowl, Elizabeth II took a handful of earth and dropped it on the coffin as it slowly sank to the vault below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Great Queue | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

...foot, six inch center, facing Jack Molinas, one of the best players in the league, scored 19 points, although he played little more than half of the game. After replacing starter Dick Lionette midway in the second quarter, he forced Molinas to commit enough personal fouls against him to be yanked from the game by his coach before fouling...

Author: By Jere Broh-kahn, | Title: Lions Down Five 83-57; Freshmen Win 9th Straight | 2/18/1952 | See Source »

...group consists mainly of pacifists," Drake said, "but as a group it man it decided whether to commit itself to pacifism, or just support other projects conducive to peace." He did not disclose what these projects might...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pacifist Council Organizes, Lacks University Sponsor | 2/16/1952 | See Source »

Louisiana's Republicans also made some news last week. In New Orleans, pro-Eisenhower candidates came out ahead in 14 of 24 contests for the Republican Parish Executive Committee and won ten out of 56 seats on the State Central Commit tee. Neither of these bodies chooses delegates to the national convention, but the returns did seem to indicate a dent in the ironclad control exercised by pro-Taft National Committeeman John E. Jackson. On the basis of last week's result, Jackson's rival, John Minor Wisdom, said that half the state's 15 delegates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Dent | 1/28/1952 | See Source »

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