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...telling management about its faults, Dr. McMurry admits that he has to pull his psychological punches. Otherwise, he says, "We would lose our jobs." For management is also emotionally immature, and when given bitter pills of truth, it suffers anxieties and guilt feelings which it is apt to take out on the bearer of the bad news...
Except for a slight stiffness about the hips and a shorter backswing, he looked like the old Hogan. He was one under par for the first nine holes. When his strength began to ebb on the 13th, he leaned against a tree to pull himself together. On the 15th, he glared momentarily at what sounded like another movie camera. When he discovered it was only a lawn mower, he calmly lined up a 30-foot putt and sank it. His first-round score was 73, only five strokes off the pace...
...Brewer's freshmen never caught up after a pin in the 121 pound class gave Brown a five point lead. Harvard had a chance to pull the match out in the final boat, the score being 13-11 after seven lights. Harvard's beat individual showing was made by Johnny Lee, a smooth wrestler who is always working and resembles a small tiger...
...true now and never was (no matter what some people thought in the '30's) that only Government action can pull the country out of a depression or rescue it from inflation. Taxation and public spending are only "useful weapons . . . Complete recovery from a substantial downswing depends primarily upon the revival of private investment...
...with the directors (TIME, Feb. 17, 1947). The orchestra at first threatened to disintegrate under a series of guest conductors. But last year Leopold Stokowski and the Minneapolis Symphony's Greek-born Dimitri Mitropoulos, sharing most of the season under Bruno Walter as musical adviser, began to pull it together again...