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...eleven months Coach Earl Blaik of Army had been obsessed with one thought: beat Michigan. His scouts had charted Michigan's last two games of 1948 and brought their G-2 reports to headquarters atop the gym at West Point. Movies of two previous Army-Michigan games (in 1945-46) were not enough for the campaign that Blaik planned. He rounded up newsreels of Michigan playing other teams and spent much of the winter studying them in slow-motion with his staff of assistants...
...unperturbed Earl of Lister shoots rabbits, his unruffled countess keeps ducks, and Tony, their nonchalant heir, after losing a seat in Parliament as a Conservative candidate, promptly tries again as a Laborite. This is too much for the family's fiercely Tory butler, who stands against Tony and wins the election. But it is one thing, of course, for a butler of the old school to stand in such circumstances, and quite another...
...Earl Blaik put his first-string offense in again at this point and it got two more touchdowns before the game ended...
...royalty once again, sentimental London celebrated as it can only when romance is coupled with propriety. Two months ago King George VI, in answer (it was said) to the pleas of his sister, the Princess Royal, had granted permission for her music critic son, George Henry Hubert Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood, to marry pretty Marion Stein, whose father fled from Vienna in 1938 because he was part Jewish. On their wedding day last week, well-wishers by the thousands thronged the streets outside St. James's Palace for a glimpse of the young groom, who met his bride...
Married. George Henry Hubert Las-celles, 7th Earl of Harewood, 26; and Marion Stein, 22, Austrian-born pianist; in London (see FOREIGN NEWS...