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Smashing the worst losing streak in Harvard grid history, the Crimson Varsity gave the Tigers a 34-6 tail twisting in Palmer Stadium on Saturday. It was the first time Harvard has downed Princeton since 1923, the first major game victory since 1933, and Dick Harlow's first big league triumph since he has come to Cambridge...
Getting off to rather a bad start last Saturday the '41, eleven lost to Exeter 2-0 by virtue of a safety early in the first period. Coach Skip Stahley hopes his team is cured of the fumbling streak it exhibited last week...
...with the Washington Senators, they were ten games ahead of the Detroit Tigers and it was generally considered that the Yankees had the American League pennant practically won. But they had just lost three straight games to the feeble Philadelphia Athletics, and the Senators had just stretched a winning streak to eight games. And there was also the problem of Yankee Pitcher Vernon ("Lefty") Gomez...
Mansell was no revolutionist, but a bewildered weakling with a streak of artistic feeling. He learned his first lesson when two convicts got into a fight about him, quickly accepted the prison social distinction between "mugs" and "right." The mugs included perverts, morons, members of the choir; the others don't "run after the chaplains, nor crawl to governors, nor run with the sissies." Sickened by the perversion he saw all around him, Mansell was helped out by big, tough Bill Weldon, doing a five-year stretch for robbery, who told him that most lifers crack in the first...
...most readers, interest in The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is now eclipsed by the much-predicted decline & fall of the civilization now current. Because he wrote colorfully and lacked the wide propagandist streak of many modern historians, Edward Gibbon seems to most present-day readers less the greatest English historian than the most industrious and fervid of historical novelists. About the only part of Gibbon's reputation so far not attacked is his claim to being the ugliest historian in English literature, and of having produced, for his size, the most impressive work...