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Nary a squawk has come from Worcester, but it is no secret that Holy Cross is steaming over the case of George Connor, its 225-lb. All-America tackle, who decided to attend Notre Dame this year. Leahy has plucked two other red-ripe plums: Frank Kosikowski, ex-Marquette end, who starred last year on the champion Fleet City (Calif.) Navy team; and pugnacious Center George Strohmeyer, ex-Texas A. & M. and Iowa Pre-Flight...
...been mean to customers now complained that customers were mean to them. OPA, which had been the lamented darling of many housewives when meat was plentiful but high in price, was now blamed by almost everybody for the famine. Washington dopesters figured that the wobbly OPA was just about ripe for a knockout punch...
...Great Books set will include introductory essays by Hutchins, Mortimer Adler, Carl Van Doren, Stringfellow Barr, plus a cross-index of the world's great ideas and idea-men. An entire building on the Chicago campus is filled with ripe scholars and raw materials for this index. Publication date: 1948. For the first few years Britannica expects an annual sale of 5,000 sets...
Haiti's 3,000,000 poor blacks, who eat one meal a day and fight to live on about an acre of land apiece, had long been asmolder. Wartime speculation and spreading inflation left the masses ripe for rabble-rousing...
...Caesarion, who was promising enough to be assassinated eventually by order of Octavian. In Shaw's charming fiction, they warily skirt the quagmires of passion while the aging political genius, with rueful avuncular irony, helps to convert the puppet Queen from a fierce child into a woman, ripe for Mark Antony's plucking...