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...blood. Witherspoon had planned to go abroad after fresh talent, dropped dead on the eve of his sailing. Johnson's sailing was delayed six weeks. By that time many a top-notch singer had been engaged, and last year's French and Italian performances had to string along with as little life as ever...
Among those seeking justice at the august bar of the U. S. Supreme Court fortnight ago was a string of automobile accessory stores doing business under the corporate name, "The Pep Boys, Manny, Moe and Jack of California." The Pep Boys wanted to overthrow California's so-called Fair Trade Act, which forces retailers to maintain the price of trademarked goods at levels fixed by manufacturers. Challenged at the same time by other appellants was a similar Illinois statute. In a unanimous decision the Supreme Court turned down the Pep Boys, held that such price-maintenance legislation by states...
...squad includes a strong reserve strength which will enable the Crimson to play a harder and faster game than is their wont. In an interview yesterday evening Wes Fesler stressed the fact that "no one, including Captain Gray, is certain of retaining his position in the first string...
...dependable leaders in this commonwealth. They have rarely won official distinction. In the sixties and seventies and eighties they were called 'the silk-stocking democrats,' men of education, of talent, of character, of vision." I doubt if you would call that the description of a second-string politician...
During Coach Dobie's nine-year stay, Washington did not lose a game. In the course of 61 contests without a defeat, it ran up 39 victories in a row, a string surpassed only by Yale's 48 from 1885 to 1889. Its opponents included everything from the best teams in the U. S. to high- school boys and sailors from U. S. warships...