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...bright note in the Crimson's defeat was the performance of last year's. Freshman cross country captain, Joe Leeming, who has been on the injured list all fall. Leeming was running well at the halfway mark, but at the beginning of the second loop, his knee knocked out of him again and he had to drop out of the race...
Winner of the loop title will get a 150-point boost towards the coveted Straus trophy now held by Leverett House and also a crack at the winner of the Yale intercollegiate competition come November. All other Houses in the league will play Eli colleges also, being paired off with a team having the same standing in the New Haven loop...
...city in the U.S. has a more rattletrap public transportation system than Chicago. Its streetcars, owned by four different companies (all bankrupt) and operated by a fifth, are mostly high-riding "antediluvian arks." Wooden coaches of the McKinley era still clatter around the Loop's rickety elevated lines (also operated by a bankrupt company). On streetcars and El trains alike, lurching is continual, overcrowding chronic and wrecks frequent...
...great advantage: it is small, compact, set off by lagoons and gently rolling lawns, and is easily accessible by foot, bus, trolley and El. Largely because of its location, it consistently outdraws Chicago's bigger, more modern Brookfield Zoo, which lies 13 miles southwest of the Loop. Even when the Cubs are as determinedly in the pennant race as they are this season, Lincoln Park has bigger crowds than Wrigley Field; its 1947 attendance will probably hit 3,000,000-a new high...
...lurched and headed for the ground, 4,000 feet below. People on the ground heard an ear-shattering roar from its engines. The doomed plane's drunken glide steepened into a dive. From the vertical it went slightly on to its back, completing part of a wide outside loop. From the CAB plane, the inspectors saw it plunge into a clump of trees, disintegrate in a great cloud of smoke and flying debris...