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Hence, past performances, as in the precarious pastime of doping the ponies, are the only suggestion to befuddled crystal gazers. Except for an informal affair with the Alumni last Saturday, tonight's plunge represents the baptismal sprinkling in competition for the Crimson watermen. A 51 to 15 victory score here offers scant comfort in itself, but Ulen appeared to be holding his heavy guns in reserve...
...Crystal. Because he can never find his way in the big cinemansions, "idiotic labyrinth of premieres, first runs," etc., Grierson prefers his neighborhood Crystal. ". . . By the time a film gets to the Crystal, the spit & polish have gone, the confidence trick of presentation and ballyhoo is an old damp squib of months ago, and Lost Horizon, Mr. Deeds, and the Hoot Gibsons, they all come even at last on the billboards. They have to talk across the hard floors and waste spaces of the peanuts to be good, with nothing to warm them except what is inside themselves, and that...
...himself when there is nothing to say--unless he possesses the imagination and ability of the New York Herald Tribune's Red Smith, who is probably the best working sports columnist of the day--may sound like heresy, but it's undoubtedly better than myopic gaves into an athletic crystal ball...
...earliest moves of new GOP leaders, Representative Joe Martin has announced intentions to reduce income taxes by 20 per cent, and a consequent paring of appropriations for all government projects, including an Army and Navy engaged in vital Occupation duties. Further Republican proposals in this revival of the Crystal Palace era of laissez-faire include shelving of the minimum-wage bill and President Truman's measure to establish a Federal health insurance program, both of which were introduced in the last Congressional session...
...Flung cleared his throat, "First, a prediction. I'm kind O'Leary of my crystal ball, because Douglas is dirty, but it's Plain that the Redis open for a Crimson win. We'll Rusch them so hard they won't know whether they're in Madison Square Gardiner Hanover, Markhamy words, the score will be Harvard 20 Dartmouth...