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...vice-president of the Association, who is in Laconia making final arrangements for the championships, is still praying for snow. But if this fails to materialize, winter sport fans may witness the unique spectacle of an otherwise bare hillside bisected by a glittering, steep ribbon of snow, with a run-off field, snow-blanketed at its base. The process will be the same employed at the Boston and New York indoor winter sport shows, only on a much bigger scale. The artificial ice-manufacture and its sprinkling over the big 60-meter jump, if it becomes necessary, will be setting...
...there are less than twenty names, the final election will be held on Thursday, February 25. If there are more, there will be a primary on Tuesday, the twenty-third. The eight candidates receiving the highest number of votes will engage in the run-off on the twenty-fifth, their names being announced in the CRIMSON the day before...
...years ago Oklahoma realized that Joshua Bryan Lee was no joke when it sent that professor of elocution at the State University to Congress, where he attracted immediate attention by mellifluous, effective speechmaking. Last week Representative Josh Lee, 44, again proved his worth when he won the Democratic run-off primary for the U. S. Senate. Swamped by the largest majority (112,000 votes) in Oklahoma history was Democratic Governor Ernest Whitworth Marland...
Down to defeat in still another run-off went Democratic Representative Percy Lee ("Don't Call Me Percy") Gassaway, whose ten-gallon hat, cowboy boots, wing collar, shoestring tie and advocacy of birth control made him a minor notable in the 74th Congress. Victor on a cowhide radical program was jut-jawed, 27-year-old Lyle H. Boren who stepped out of a Government job for the campaign. Gassaway's chief attack on him was his failure to marry, produce 14 children, as Gassaway had done. Replied Nominee Boren: "Old Noah or someone in the Bible...
From, the preliminary elections fortnight ago members of the French Right learned that if they were to make any sort of a showing in last week's run-off elections, they must pull up their collective socks...