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...Harvard sports--starting a quarter-century from now. Until that time the athletic department will have to wrestle with a difficult problem. Their departmental income, due to declining football gate receipts, this year has been slashed to the tune of $40,000. No one can tell how long this downward trend may continue...
...Continued downward...
...traffic on the corner, yelled "Stick-up!" and pointed at the fleeing men. Maher raced after them, only 20 feet behind, afraid to shoot into the crowd. Motorists left their cars and joined the chase. Maher saw a clear space, shot twice, and William Esposito staggered sideways, fell face downward, one arm outstretched, one twisted under him, apparently dead...
High above, the Stukas wheeled, broke up into sections of three and peeled off downward in screaming, vertical dives. Just as the British planes left the deck, the first Stuka dived through the crashing anti-aircraft fire, let go and flattened out. In a searing flash, a 1,000-pounder blew a hole in the flight deck to starboard, smashing planes about to take off in the next flight, causing heavy casualties among the mechanics servicing them. Another tore through the side plate, another plunged close by into the sea, its bursting fragments spattering the crew of one pompom...
...provides a conventional mixture of facts about what has happened during the past 24 hours at home and abroad, descriptions of athletic contests, statistics about prices, fiction and humor . . . notes about women's styles . . . politics, personal health and happiness. . . . The departures from this conventional mixture either upward ... or downward . . . are few and slight...