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...clearly apparent reason; a flapper who literally sinks her teeth into nice young men; a nice young man; a Jewish intellectual who can't make up his mind whether he wants to be a quarter-miler or just a social climber. Comes the dawn, and the "lone eagles" turn into "a covey of sitting ducks." One of them also turns into a dead pigeon. The others boozing, cynical or hitting the Prufrock-bottom of resignation-live by remembering. Almost everybody sooner or later tries to shoot himself or else to write a book. Promising Author Morris (The Works...
...until 1949, in fact, that dissent arose. At first it was the lone voice of Professor Oakes Ames, once a director of the Arboretum, a voice somewhat obscured in the stately federal procedure of the Board of Overseers. He wrote Walte Edmonds, Committee on Biological sciences, expressing doubt over the Plan's legality. Soon the vistors to the Arboretum began to question it, too. The Overseers referred the question to the Edmonds Committee, which in turn requested the services of an independent lawyer. The Corporation retained Alfred P. Lowell, the first of the many legal guns that have reported...
...harrassed witness, who has no confidence in the committee before which he is testifying, there is only one recourse, the Fifth Amendment. Griswold described it as "very nearly a lone sure rock in a time of storm. . . . It has . . . been a symbol of the ultimate moral sense of the community, upholding the best in us, when otherwise, there was a good deal of wavering under the pressure of the times...
...millions of youngsters watched in beady-eyed fascination, Roy Rogers (with the help of Dale and Trigger) got the drop on some slow-witted fur thieves; Hopalong Cassidy (with help from his younger brother ) corralled a batch of badmen who had holed up in a gold mine; the Lone Ranger (with help from Tonto and his horse Silver) outwitted a pseudo-Englishman and won an inheritance which -naturally -he promptly donated to a worthy cause...
Hurricane Hasel and Dean Academy threatened most of yesterday afternoon at Soldiers Field. But junior varsity fullback Ed Galvin provided a storm of his own by racing the clock to score the lone touchdown of the afternoon late in the fourth period and give the Crimson a 7 to 0 victory...