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During the 40 necessary trips that drivers of the emergency cabs dared make, they were mobbed by would-be-riders, stopped by at least a dozen people who pleaded that they were practically dying on the street. By mid-week the five cabs were...
Harvard, which conquered Princeton last month at Cambridge, will face the Tigers on the Nassau court tomorrow evening. The afore-mentioned Columbia-Cornell game is the third mid-week contest...
Worst example of the harsh censorship came in mid-week when lanky, hard-working Alistair Cooke, now a U.S. citizen, correspondent for British Broadcasting Corp., London Times, and London Daily Herald, tried to send a dispatch to the Herald naming a few of the things correspondents had not been permitted to transmit. He learned correspondents are even forbidden to report what sort of reports are forbidden. Blue-penciled from his dispatch was, among other things, this: "Most British correspondents agree . . . that it is practically impossible to report any news item about the [U.S. race] problem...
...mid-week the Solomons had dropped off the front page; the big news was a Republican come-back greater than even G.O.P. stalwarts had hoped; so we scrapped the Australian covers that were printed and substituted a painting of Republican Tom Dewey...
Right now, and this will probably go for the Brown game. Bart Harvey is the second stringer, with Steve Gifford next in line. Harvey started the year on the Jayvees, made the Varsity squad just before the Penn game, and has been outstanding all season in mid-week scrimmages on the "C" team...