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...Though Coach-of-the-Year Charlie Caldwell lost all but one of his undefeated 1950 offensive team, the one man remaining was the key man: Halfback Dick Kazmaier, All-America triple-threat. Defensive standouts: Guard Brad Glass and 60-minute End Frank McPhee. Princeton now has the longest major winning streak in the nation (16 straight), and only Cornell stands in the way of its second straight Ivy League title...
...film's characters run the social gamut from the count to the streetwalker, but stick to the same single track. The episodes vary in length, mood and quality. The longest and best, strung together midway in the film, shine with a brilliance that the rest of the movie cannot match. These catch the essence of three classic situations: the willing maid (Simone Simon) and the nervously eager master (Daniel Gelin); the master and the other man's wife (Danielle Darrieux) who wants to be coaxed into infidelity; the faithless wife inciting and lulling the suspicion of her sanctimonious...
...pass by Sophomore Halfback Tom Yewcic. Other notable results: Tennessee, with a touchdown in every quarter, over unbeaten Duke, 26-0; Texas A. & M. over Oklahoma, 14-7, to cut the Sooners' regular-season streak at 29 straight victories; Princeton over Navy, 24-20, giving the Tigers the longest major unbeaten streak (15) in the nation; Northwestern, with a touchdown in the last two minutes of play, over Army, 20-14; Holy Cross over Fordham...
...written on their faces gathered from all over London. As two Coldstream Guards in top-heavy busbies and flaming tunics paraded back & forth on sentry-go, the people talked among themselves in the hushed tones of relatives in a hospital anteroom. "He hasn't looked well for the longest time," said one old lady with an air of authority. "He must be very sick, God bless him," said another...
Requiem is notable for lesser things: a structure spliced play-fashion into acts and scenes, a breathless, 49-page, nonstop sentence, one of the longest in world literature,* and a story which reads like a moral sequel to Faulkner's own gamy shocker, Sanctuary...