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Sharp's catch seems certain to crack all deepsea fishing records for Harvard undergraduates by a wide margin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '51 Angler Lands Huge Tuna | 10/19/1948 | See Source »

...Winthrop squeeze over Leverett, the Deacons overcame uncooperative officialling and 65 yards of penalties to keep their small margin. The two lines were equal charge for charge, but the Bunny running attack, split between the "T" and the single wing, was no competition for the faster Puritans...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Valpey Works on Fundamentals; Winthrop, Kirkland Notch Wins | 10/14/1948 | See Source »

...from a Communist election rally to follow a Labor Party car (see cut). At the polls their elders did virtually the same, even though Labor has done little more than the Tories ever did for the Gorbals. Alice Cullen, Labor's candidate, won by a 6,525-vote margin over the Conservative candidate.The Communists, after an all-out campaign, got 17% of the vote. Said one Labor Party official in smug satisfaction: "We've still held our record of never losing a seat at a by-election since 1945." In 1906 the Gorbals became one of the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: No Cheers for the Victor | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...much campaigning. His opponent, Gerald R. Ford Jr., 35, did. A Grand Rapids lawyer and onetime University of Michigan football star, Ford had hundreds of volunteers pushing doorbells for him, time & again dared Jonkman to debate his foreign-policy stand. Jonkman refused. Back-slapping "Jerry" Ford's margin: nearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: In the Semi-Finals | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

...once delivered thumping majorities for conservative Coke Stevenson, had turned on him and delivered them to New Dealing Lyndon Johnson. How Parr could deliver was shown in Duval County's return: Johnson 4,622; Stevenson 40. When the count of 988,295 votes was complete, Johnson had a margin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: The Duke Delivers | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

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