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...last week the rule of the political machine that Huey Long built-though not until May 14 will Sam Jones become Governor. It ended after a day of quiet balloting that gave Sam Jones 283,384 votes, Earl Long 263,443. But far bigger than the 20,000-vote margin was the anti-Long victory. In the Legislature, where there had been no opposition since 1929 ("I can buy and sell legislators," said Huey Long, "like sacks of potatoes") only 37 of 100 members were returned Longsters...
...first event. His trio of Scammell, McClure, and Boozan versus Art Bosworth, Jack Waldron, and Lonine Stowell should provide the spectators with a genuinely rip-roaring race. Bosworth ought to be slightly faster than Scammell, McClure speedier than Waldron, and Stowell should be given a small margin over Boozan--according to past performances--and on the result may hinge the outcome of the meet...
...game was remarkably clean as the Ithacans fouled only three times while Harvard committed seven misdemeanors. The visitors' fouls turned out to be the margin of victory, for the Cornell sharpshooters turned in a 100 per cent record in their free shooting...
Healey, who led the pack by a wide margin in the Marshal race with 199 votes, comes from Worcester and lives in Winthrop House. A tackle on the 1989 eleven, he will captain the baseball team this spring and is a members of Phi Beta Kappa...
Winning by the largest margin of any of the officers, Read, Class Odist comes from Villanova. Pennsylvania, and is a resident of Eliot House. Trailing him were Vinton Freedley, Jr., with 131 votes; Hal C. Thompson with 85; and Elliot Forbes with...