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...stay in the running for the crown. High scorer for the Deacons was Jim Urdan, netting 17 points. A win for Kirkland against first place Lowell this Friday would tie the league championship. In other "A" League games the AROTC lost to Lowell 37 to 25, and Adams sunk the NROTC 26 to 24. "B" League scores were: Dudley 38, Lowell 32; Winthrop 48, Kirkland...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deacon 'A' Basketball Team Edges Winthrop, Remains in Title Race | 3/5/1952 | See Source »

...Marshall Club will represent the plaintiff--the Russian Steamship Company, which is claiming insurance proceeds of a Latvian ship which was sunk by the Germans during the war. Opposing them, the J. Smith Club will support the defendant--the United States Attorney General...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Douglas Will Officiate At Ames Competition Finals at Law School | 2/13/1952 | See Source »

...Last week a Red tank prowling a frozen river was "sunk" when U.N. artillery fire holed the ice and the tank fell through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF KOREA: Twilight War | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

...impatience led him into a dangerous spot in late 1940. When war orders were delayed by the reluctance of British firms to release patent rights, Howe sailed for Britain on the liner Western Prince to break the bottleneck. In the North Sea the ship was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine. One of Howe's chief aides, Gordon Scott, was killed at his side. Howe and other survivors drifted for eight hours in a lifeboat before being rescued. At the dockside in Britain, a newsman asked Howe whether his whole life had flashed before him as he faced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: The Indispensable Ally | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

...himself could do the job that has to be done. People are looking for miracles, and I'd hate to see Dwight get in a wringer. He could swing his arms and thrash the water, but if Congress wasn't with him, then he'd be sunk ... I don't want him crucified. I'm sorry the country feels that there's only one man among all the citizenry who can . restore it to its position in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sorrowful Brother | 1/28/1952 | See Source »

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