Word: falling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Orleans and played fullback one season for both the Tulane freshman and a local high-school team. He starred for each. Dana X. Bible persuaded him to go to Texas A. & M., but the coach soon suffered an untimely loss; McCarthy was fired for hazing before the fall season began, and played for Allen Academy at Bryan instead. The year after that he was on the freshman team at Rice Institute...
...Western Europe through the ballot box. Accordingly, Western European Communist Parties concentrated on political drives to exploit economic misery and insecurity. Their success was checked by the Marshall Plan, but they still knew that in event of war Western Europe offered no military obstacle to the Red Army. Last fall the Kremlin realized that the U.S. military aid program might change that fact...
...down in a front pew in St. Paul's Cathedral for special pre-campaign services conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury. The day's lesson, from St. Luke 6: 39: "And He spake a parable unto them. Can the blind lead the blind? Shall they not both fall into the ditch...
Late last fall, the newspapers in the Cincinnati area carried a story concerning the plans of Harvard College to "de-emphasize" football (although I am curious to learn how it had been "emphasized" in the last few years). And on yesterday, they carried the story that Art Valpey had resigned his coaching position at Harvard to take another at the University of Connecticut. Although I have not bad the opportunity to poll the alumni in this area, I am certain that the majority received both reports with a great deal of disappointment, as well as resentment...
Valpey made the greatest impression on reporters in the post-game conferences in the Field House. He was under increasing pressure this fall as each game came and went, but his manner never changed. After the Holy Cross game, when most men would have been tempted to gloat a little. Art was so quiet you might have thought he didn't care unless you had seen him come out of the dressing room a few minutes earlier. By the time he got into the press conferences and saw Bill Osmanski who had, at that time, won only one less game...