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...Sample from a recent select-the-best phrase question: "In trying to renew old recollections, we cannot unfold the whole web of our existence; we must 1) winnow the wheat from the chaff, 2) pick out the single threads, 3) scrap the flotsam and jetsam, 4) isolate the relevant factors, 5) distinguish between the warp and the woof." Students who ticked off No. 2 got it right...
Four scalps have fallen to Dartmouth's unbeaten soccer team; the Crimson is smarting after its less to Army thin should add up to a good scrap when the teams meet today at Hanover...
...trouble with Legend of Sarah is not just that the pattern is familiar but that like the pattern in wallpaper it endlessly repeats itself. Sarah starts with lovers scrapping and they continue to scrap, at ten-minute intervals, for the rest of the play. Betweenwhiles, the genteel agitation over the ancestress could be excused its lack of drama if it ever had any real gaiety as satire. The dogged humor of the play is not helped by the relentless vivacity of the production...
...club, whose members include such bigwigs as Meatpacker Harold Swift, Educator Robert Hutchins, Senator Paul Douglas and Democratic Boss Jake Arvey, put the question in a polite letter to the Trib's Managing Editor J. Loy Maloney. Replied Maloney: "Our readers deserve every scrap of information concerning the principal in a story-whether it be a crime story or a story which is complimentary to the persons mentioned or merely noncommittal on that point. We merely report the facts...
...president since 1938 of U.S. Steel Corp.'s two coal-mining subsidiaries, Harry M. Moses has had many a scrap over the bargaining table with John L. Lewis. Last week 53-year-old Harry Moses resigned as president of the companies, to devote his full time to the bargaining battle...