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Against California last week, the lefthanded Jackson hit his 36th home run of the year as the A's won 3-2. Earlier in the week, Howard, a righthanded hitter noted for his tremendous strength and towering blasts, lashed his 34th in a game that the Senators dropped 4-3 to Detroit. Both men are at least two weeks ahead of the pace set by Ruth and Roger Maris in the years of their record performances (60 in 155 games for Ruth in 1927; 61 over an expanded 163-game schedule for Maris in 1961). Both were solid American...
Harvard's heavyweight crew stroked out to an early lead and coasted home with a two-length victory over Princeton to capture its 34th straight intercollegiate win and seventh consecutive Compton Cup title on Saturday, M.I.T. was a distant third...
Harvard will be seeking its 34th consecutive intercollegiate victory and its seventh straight Compton Cup win when it starts the 2000 meters today...
Comrades-in-Arms. Many responded by sending their first citizens to Washington, a tribute not only to the 34th President of the U.S. but also to the commander of the Western forces that defeated Hitler and liberated Europe in World War II. Eighteen heads of state or chiefs of government were on hand, as well as a score of foreign ministers. Among the major Western allies only Britain, a country with special ties to Eisenhower, did not send a delegation of the highest echelon. Lord Mountbatten, leader of the British contingent, was outranked by most other delegates...
...noble leader." Once a bitterly outspoken foe, Harry Truman, now 84, remembered that before the two men were political opponents, they were "comrades in arms. And I cannot forget his services to his country and to Western civilization." Many others, like Truman, chose to remember Eisenhower not as the 34th President, whose stewardship may long be disputed, but as the "soldier of peace" who led the greatest alliance of armies the world has ever seen, or will likely see again...