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...have devoted 92 lines of the Oct. 10 Cinema section to a busty English vaudeville actress called Diana Dors, explaining in unnecessary detail the color of her lawnmower and second-hand Rolls-Royce, yet in your Milestones column you give only a scant nine lines to the memory of America's greatest young actor, James Dean, who was killed in an untimely accident...
Brew's outstanding finish was almost equalled by Pete Reider, who finished a scant six seconds behind the Green captain in the best race of his career. Reider set a Crimson record on the Dartmouth track in beating Hal Gerry's old mark set in 1953 by 18 seconds...
...forced to work his best. They were more than good enough. Carl Erskine lasted only three innings, but Don Bessent and Clem Labine teamed up behind him to hold the Yankees off. Snider, Campanella and Hodges all homered, and Snider was superb in the field. The Yanks got scant consolation from McDougald's wasted first-inning home run. Final score: Dodgers 8, Yankees...
...score. As in the varsity meet, Brown took second place, M.I.T. was third, and Tufts finished fourth. The Crimson's Jim Schlaeppl won in a fast time of 17:02. Bill Thompson broke across the line in 17:07, while Dick Benjamin followed him by a scant three seconds...
...palm of his hand. LIAR, LIAR, LIAR, he squeezed it, hoping it would crumble to pieces. . ."), a debt which is hardly concealed by the use of capitals. Although Fearing's story is not likely to live on in anthologies, it is still the best in a rather scant summer issue...