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...readers of last August's front pages are well aware, Earl Blaik numbers among his Black Knights two ends, one Ed Weaver and one John Krobock--both honorable men. Behind them are Lowell Sisson, Bob Mischak, and Ron Lincoln, three more competent ends. Between the, is nothing. The Army defensive linemen soared through on every play, several times catching the ball-carrier for a loss, but more often finding themselves trapped or outmaneuvered. Dartmouth's line played more of a shifting-and-waiting game...
...that reason the Earl of Warwick buys her from the Burgundians and insists that she must burn. But the pro-founder issue is that between Joan and her judges. In the trial scene she comes up against not only all the power of the church but all the power of the church's arguments. The grandeur of Shaw's trial rests less, in the end, on how brilliant it is than on how basic. It is the eternal clash -in politics, society, art no less than in religion-between the institution's claim to sovereignty...
...Governors' conference in Tennessee this week, that question of 1952 naturally came up. Of the 25 G.O.P. executives on hand, nine said they are for Eisenhower and four said they are for Taft. The rest were not saying. Noticeable among the non-sayers was California's Governor Earl Warren, the vice-presidential nominee in 1948. When reporters asked whom he is for, Warren replied: "If you ask me in 1952, I'll tell you." But those who talked further with the California governor came away convinced that he is taking very seriously the chances of one candidate...
...guest list read something like a combination of Who's Who and Burke's Peerage. E.M. Forster was there; so was Novelist Rose Macaulay and Viscount Jowitt and the Earl of Ilchester. The man they had all come to honor, neither peer nor poet, was known to most of the guests as plain...
...recent writer for the American Legion's monthly magazine fears that an article by National Commander Earl Cocke, Jr. was too subtle for Legion members. There was some question whether readers would recognize their commander's references to "pastel mink coats, Phi Beta Kappa keys, and deference to the British Foreign Office." In answer to this call for help from the ranks, "American Legion" has taken off its kid gloves...