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Yesterday afternoon the Jayvee football team saw how the other half--the winning half--lives. Suddenly catching fire in the second and third quarters to pour across three touchdowns, the Jayvees hung on through a fourth stanza barrage of Brown desperation passes to pull out their first major win of the campaign. The score was Harvard 18, Brown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jayvees Stun Brown, 18-14, As Mauran Sparks Offense | 11/13/1948 | See Source »

...plugged and pounded his way across the country-traveling 31,-500 miles, making 350 speeches, shouting out some 560,000 words. He had a kind of self-induced fervor which roused the admiring cry of "Pour it on, Harry!" from many an American voter. He had continued to fight right up to the last night. On election eve, while Tom Dewey piously urged everyone to get out and vote, Harry Truman had broken all the rules of proper election-eve conduct by urging the people to get out and vote for Democrats. His last words, which sounded to the experts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Independence Day | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

...Institute's 18-room Olden Manor. But she has abandoned her own studies to run the house, and look after the children (a boy, Peter, 7, and a girl, "Toni," going-on-4). Oppie, who has a theory about everything, has formulated one for raising children: "Just pour in the love and it will come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Eternal Apprentice | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

Away for a Score. Carolina folks were mighty proud that Choo Choo, in this age of interstate commerce in footballers, was a native North Carolinian. Prosperous alumni, who pour about $100,000 yearly into a football fund, convinced him of the virtues of staying at home. Like many football heroes, Choo Choo drives a new car. He and his family live in a cozy bungalow off Chapel Hill's main street. After he graduates, a loyal alumnus has promised to set him up with an automobile dealership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Jack Rabbit of Chapel Hill | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...Columbia coach points out that "Rutgers did everything; but outscore us," gaining more yardage along the ground and in the air than the Light Blue. And Little's first words on seeing the Crimson football team pour out of Dillon Field House were, "My, don't those boys look...

Author: By Bill Green, | Title: Lou Little Awed by Crimson Size, Black Pants; Won't Predict Score | 10/2/1948 | See Source »

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