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...articles for the "New Yorker" about an elusive counterfeiter. Known as "Mr. 880" from the number of his Treasury Department file, this counterfeiter left a trail of disarmingly crude one-dollar bills across four boroughs of New York and the Staten Island Ferry, and led the Secret Service the longest chase in its history...
...Norman, Okla., the University of Oklahoma, 34-28, over Texas A. & M., to stretch its victory string, now the longest in the U.S., to 23 games...
...Though not the longest. Between 1907 and 1917, the University of Washington, playing less formidable schedules, went through 63 games without a defeat...
Winthrop end Paul Rhodes pulled down a long pass from halfback Frank Hernberg to give the Puritans an early lead, but Gilbert then went 65 yards on the longest run of the game and tied the score. Rhinelander quickly followed with a 15-yard dash to the six-yard line, from where he plunged through guard for another tally...
...biggest, and certainly the longest (2½ hours) of the returning shows was Saturday Night Revue (Sat. 8 p.m., NBC-TV). The Revue is divided into unequal parts: the hour-long Jack Carter Show, a melange of slow jokes and vaudeville turns, and Your Show of Shows, brilliantly staged by Broadway's Max Liebman and reaching a TV high in literacy, talent and theatricality. Stars of Liebman's show are Sid Caesar, TV's best home-grown comic, and tiny Imogene Coca, an ex-nightclub comedienne. Whether playing the part of young marrieds having the boss...