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...thriller-writer could have staged a more exciting performance than the Varsity hockey team's 1 to 0 shutout of Yale at the Arena Saturday night. The incredible goal-tending of Jack Lavalle and Eli Jimmy Burns, combined with the gruelling attacks of both teams and the razor-thin margin of victory, kept 3,170 fans on the verge of a nervous breakdown right down to the final whistle...
...here that bad luck caught up with the squad. The absence of number one jumper Laurie Griffin, who was at Laconia competing in the Eastern Intercollegiate championships, combined with a series of bad breaks, cost the skiers a possible fifteen points, the margin of difference between first and fourth places...
Matthews may send a story back to a senior editor for further work; he may okay it unchanged. More often, he makes his own changes, fills the margin ' with suggestions, questions and cautionary comments. The copy then goes to the researchers for checking. Charged with verifying every word, they put a dot over each one to signify that they have. Their more important job is to make sure that the story as a whole adds up; sometimes every statement in a story may be true and yet the story as a whole give a false impression. In this process...
...three decisions, in the 130, the 165, and unlimited classes. Buddy King, facing the Yale captain at 136, escaped in the last period to pull a 3 to 2 upset win for Harvard; while three classes up, Don Louria alternately scored nearfalls and reversals to pile up the largest margin of the day, a 13 to 5 decision over Bill Julion. Captain Pete Fuller took the only other bout for the Varsity, an unexpectedly close 3 to 1 decision over heavyweight Tom Thomas of Yale...
...support, and no coach, the Crimson polo team in now on a playing basis, and last Saturday galloped through its first match of the new era. Following the pattern of companion Harvard teams it succumbed to a fully-equipped and experienced Yale squad by a forbidding 23 to 4 margin...