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...Orleans, 73,000 fans filled the Sugar Bowl to watch undefeated Tennessee play undefeated Boston College. When the sun had set on as hair-raising a game as has been seen all fall, the underdog Boston gang, led by scrawny Charlie O'Rourke, a 158-lb. stringbean, had proved that they could take care of themselves in any company...
...were premier? and the answer is obviously, No. Or again, Would Churchill, Bevin and Morison be in power in England now if England had declined to fight? Again, No. Who would have been? The same group that Laval represented in France; the determined enemies of every social reform; the gang which will always benefit by appeasement. In regard to the American situation, then, just who will be in power if we pursue an anti-British policy? or, more concretely, who are the boys who are yelling against aid to England...
...their daughter Dorothy and a friend, all caparisoned in yachting caps, boarded Dottie, prut-prutted down Annsville Creek. This time on the railroad bridge stood a silent group of 30 men: the division engineer and his assistant, the superintendent of bridges, a lawyer, electricians, signal crew, bridge and section-gang men. The waiting section hands seized clawbars, heaved at the rails. Finally the track was taken up and Dottie flirted triumphantly through into the Hudson. At Bear Mountain they went ashore and had sodas to celebrate. The silent gang rebound the tracks, replaced fishplates, spikes, stood by to rip them...
...afternoon last week. Repair Foreman Ernest Jones noticed a leak in one of the river-water pipes. He sent a gang of workmen to repair it. They found a little water oozing out of an old valve, plugged the leak. Then, according to department custom, they opened the valve, to maintain even pressure with 15,000 other valves in the system. Without knowing it, they had opened an old valve connecting the river water with the drinking water...
...companion piece at the Met is "Murder Over New York," in which a new Charlie Chan tangles with a sabotage gang. The new Charlie runs as strongly to proverbs as did his predecessor, Warner Oland, but the late, unlamented fad of "Confucius Say's" has removed most of the punch from Oriental witticisms...