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French and Guarnaccia were the standouts on November 24 for the Crimson. Their brilliance was made possible by the hard-charging line, which, as the CRIMSON reported, "tore the Blue to shreds and paved the way for Harvard's return to football prestige." From the moment early in the first period when Pickard fell on a Blue fumble, the Crimson eleven remained unchecked, and for the only time that fall mastered an opponent's passing attack by intercepting five Yale forward attempts...
...over members' desks. Several Socialist women, kicking and screaming, were dragged out of the way. A Liberal advance party reached the speaker's chair, but Speaker Tsutsumi was not among them. A lady legislator, one of Japan's emancipated women, complained later: "One of those louts tore the sleeve from my sweater, one I picked up in Denmark. If I catch him I'll tear his eyeballs...
Before the last admirer tore herself away, Liberace had promised to be back next year-perhaps, he had announced earlier, he might move from the Garden to Yankee Stadium (capacity: 72,000). And until then, there is always his TV show, about which some of his fans have grown so enthusiastic that they kiss the screen when he appears, leaving the red lipstick marks on the grey glass...
Televiewer Ackerman promptly blew his top at this novel use of Holy Writ. With William A. Chapman, founder of the World Home Bible League, he tore off telegrams to Godfrey and Lipton's: "Shameful, sacrilegious . . . intolerably obnoxious . . . loose disrespect . . . one of the lowest notes in television history...
...Nancy Cissel, 12, of Silver Spring, Md., spotted a boy in the path of an onrushing car, dashed into the street and pulled him to safety. Nancy was obviously just in time: as the car sped by, it tore her sleeve...