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Yale may hope to generate enough steam to make its running attack click, but that is only a forlorn hope. All that Coach Pond really wants is to flash an effective enough ground offense to keep Harvard worried. afraid to devote all its attention to Yale aerials...
...creates all of his own illusions, formulating the ideas for them, and then piecing out parts to various assistants. He does the final assembling himself. Although the idea for an illusion may come in a flash, the work of putting it together may, he says, take several months...
Signed with the call letters of the 16,698-ton New Zealand freighter Rangitiki, just after noon one day last week, this ominous radio flash was followed after 99 minutes by one from the 4,952-ton British freighter Cornish City...
...Bucharest blackout was suddenly illuminated by the blinding flash of blue light which accompanies the first wave of an earthquake. Then came a series of violent shocks accompanied by the ripping, crashing noise of falling buildings and the screams of people. In five minutes more damage was caused than the Luftwaffe has accomplished in London since the war began. Scarcely a building in the entire city was unscarred. "I had noticed a young couple kissing in an automobile. . . . They are somewhere under there now," stuttered a chalk-faced newsboy, pointing in the street to a mountainous pile of masonry that...
Like many press-association dispatches, Author Gramling's book is clear, accurate, but not brilliant. He is apt to sacrifice speed of narrative for the sake of coverage. He is polite to rival agencies, balances Roy Howard's famed false flash on the Armistice that ended World War I by telling of AP's false report of the Hauptmann trial verdict...