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...writing was on the wall after the first event, with a medley trie of Hob Branard, Chuck Hoolzer, and Stove Wise each contributing part of a half tank final margin. In the 220-yard freestyle, Jerry Gorman of the Varsity was more than a match for last year's distance ace, Ted Norris...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Mermen Easily Overcome Grad Swimmers | 12/16/1946 | See Source »

...brightly, that the U.S. is the senior partner in world power, and the British therefore will just have to get used to the way Americans work and think. Wiser Americans note that Britain, in depression for a generation and drained by two wars, is acutely conscious that her margin of survival has shrunk past the danger point. The British anxiety over their dependence on the "reckless" U.S. may be exaggerated or dead wrong, but it is, in view of their own position, understandable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Lion's Tail & Eagle's Feathers | 12/16/1946 | See Source »

...preface to the new 141-page psalter is a letter from Chiang to his great & good friend, Translator Wu, with a photostat of one of the Generalissimo's own editorial emendations brushed on the manuscript's wide margin. Says the letter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Editor Chiang | 12/9/1946 | See Source »

...University of Virginia and Boston University will be the newcomers on the slate. B.U., taking the place of both Connecticut and Tufts as the opener, may prove to be stiffer early competition for the Cantabs, since the Terriers defeated Tufts this year by almost as large a margin as the Harlowmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Weight, Ability Beat Crimson; Virginia, B.U. Added in '47 Schedule | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

...Haven team is favored despite the Crimson's slight edge in percentages because the caliber of Eli opposition has been far stronger than the foes faced by the Varsity, and a comparison of scores against mutual rivals gives the Blue a definite margin of superiority--or so it would seem on paper...

Author: By Irvin M. Horowitz, | Title: Harvard Eleven Struggles to Topple Steep Odds in 63rd Yale Encounter | 11/23/1946 | See Source »

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