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Unbeaten as of last Friday, the Cub sextet will represent the Yardlings' first difficult game of the current season. Although the Crimson, too, boasts an undefeated slate, the triumphs have been mainly over local prep schools and high schools and tonight's clash will only be the team's second taste of intercollegiate competition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jayvee and Yardling Teams Play on Three Fronts Today | 1/14/1948 | See Source »

...boss couldn't do anything worse than say no. So Edward Breslin, 21, a $45-a-week cub Hearstling on the Detroit Times and a rabid sports fan, screwed up his courage, walked up to the city desk, and asked if he could please go see the Rose Bowl game. City Editor John MacLellan surprised him. Instead of turning him down, the boss proposed a bet: if Breslin wanted to hitchhike out to Pasadena and crash the gate, all on $50 of his own, he could go ahead. If he made it, the Times would pay him back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Going My Way? | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

...back is aching"), Kansas City ("tell my mother I'm fine"), Tulsa ("I can hardly wait to crawl into bed") and points west. Hundreds of letters poured in from readers. Some upbraided the Hearst organization as a bunch of cheap skates. City Editor MacLellan, pleased with his cub's performance, grunted: "Why, I didn't realize until this week that the kid has cousins near Pasadena. That'll save him money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Going My Way? | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

...scrappy Bruin Cub quintet lost its fur to a dead-eyed Freshman five, 54 to 48, Saturday night in what turned out to be an open season on bears in the Indoor Athletic Building...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Quintet Rolls Over Short Bruin Five 54-48 | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

Alongside the giant transport planes, a Piper Cub looks like a gnat. A man can lift its tail with one hand, push it over with the other. On a fine summer's day, Cubs rise from the country's fields like a swarm of grasshoppers. Thousands of sportsmen, commuters, and joyriders use them for short hops between town and farm, home and hunting ground. Last week two young instructors from Maryland's College Park Airport proved that these flimsy air flivvers could also circle the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORT: Flivver Flight | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

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