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Captain Green's team will go into the clash in their best physical condition since Brown, and for the first time since before Cornell, they have been through a mid-week scrimmage which should sharpen their tackling and blocking. As we have been saying for four successive Saturdays, watch the passing. Tailbacks Frank Foley and Austin Harding have never looked more deadly with the spirals than the week just passed. Watch Joe Gardella, sophomore fullback sensation and ranking with Cliff Wilson as the defensive satellite of the backfield...
...snappy mid-week workout the Varsity oarsmen nipped the Freshman crew by half a length rowing upstream yesterday over the mile and three-quarters stretch...
Abandoning intercollegiate competition for a mid-week pick-up game, the Crimson Postoffice team last night romped over the Katie Gibbs kissers in a colorful match that was called at four o'clock this morning owing to daylight. "We gambolled and lost," Miss Lydia Lipps, RFD, told the CRIMSON later...
Meanwhile, ex-Publisher Bourjaily is going back to the syndicate business. His first personal publishing venture was to buy from the New York Times its unnoticed Mid-Week Pictorial, which he jettisoned in February. His second was Judge. Wiser but smiling, swarthy ex-Publisher Bourjaily announced he would form a one-man "selective syndicate" through which he hopes to handle only big attractions such as the columns of Hugh Johnson and Eleanor Roosevelt which he originally secured for United Feature...
Whatever the source of the rumor, it would not be downed. Repeated denials emanated from "high Treasury officials." At his mid-week press conference President Roosevelt said he had given no thought to a reduction in the gold price or to any other device for shutting off the gold inflow. Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau also tried to down the rumor but only made it worse by replying to a direct query on whether a change was contemplated: "Not right...