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...Academy possesses one of the most impressive backfield corps in the country and, since Blaik prefers to use his superior men on defense, Army's defensive line is perhaps without equal. The individuals who man this platoon are a savage vicious lot who delight in laying hands on opposing linemen...
...cops had been taking a million dollars a year in bribes from bookies. New York City seemed to relax and enjoy the scandal. This was due, in part, to a certain reluctant civic pride in the proportions of the skulduggery. But mostly it reflected the city's undisguised delight in its new police commissioner. As he took office, burly, well-tailored Thomas Murphy (TIME, Oct. 2) gave New Yorkers the same deliriously doomlike sense of expectancy they had experienced when Babe Ruth strode to the plate in Yankee Stadium...
Begun several years ago by a group of consistent undergraduate Wellesley daters, the bus has had abundant success. Habitual riders of the special coach have reported with a mixture of delight and wonder that the volume of talk during the thirty minute ride grows less and less as the year wears...
This Russian cordiality mightily impressed a few reporters, who breathlessly watched every wrinkle on Russian faces and, like Sweet Alice, "wept with delight when you gave her a smile, and trembled with fear at your frown." Although Ben Bolt Vishinsky was smiling last week there was no evidence whatever of a real change in Soviet policy...
Three days later, while Taipei crowds looked up and cheered and China's chief of staff, General Chou Chih-jou, literally jigged in delight at Hsinchu air base, six U.S. F80 Shooting Star jets streaked over from the Philippines. Also from the Philippines came Major General Howard M. Turner, commander of the U.S. Thirteenth Air Force, and from Tokyo came Brigadier General Alonzo P. Fox, Deputy Chief of Staff for the U.S. Far East Command; they would make a more detailed survey, expedite U.S. aid, set up a liaison staff. Coordination would probably include a Nationalist armed forces training...