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...home. After his discharge from the U.S. Army in 1945, the big Californian had settled down to enjoy life on the Continent. Last year the U.S.L.T.A. left him unranked because of "insufficient data." By last week, however, Budge Patty had given the U.S.L.T.A. enough data to upset their statistical applecart...
...upset the G.O.P. Old Guardsmen's applecart in the Pennsylvania primaries was: 1. Governor Jim Duff...
...wool bill, a piece of old-line protectionism which the President properly vetoed. The Senate's bitter fight over confirmation of AEC Chairman David Lilienthal had been no credit to the 80th Congress. The House had dragged its feet on foreign aid, twice had almost upset the applecart (with its vote to include Spain in ECA, its slash in ECA appropriations). No one was proud of the 15% "voluntary" rent-control bill. Action on housing and admission of D.P.s was long overdue. Congress' investigations had yielded more publicity than malefactors, had sometimes seemed to be planned that...
Despite appearances, George Drew's government did not really fall; it was pushed. In power 19 months, its 37 members had managed to control the 90-seat House by grace of the Legislature's 16 Liberals. Then bumptious Liberal Leader Mitchell Frederick Hepburn had upset the applecart by teaming with teacherish Edward Bigelow ("Ted") Jolliffe and his 32 socialist CCFers...
Runners-Up. Few, if any, of the nation's hundreds of college basketball teams can challenge Army and Navy's top ranking. One of the few, Manhattan's St. John's (won 14, lost 1), might even upset the applecart at West Point this week. Three other top teams put an extra sheen of gilt on their records last week: ¶ DePaul's 6-ft.-9 Center George Mikan took the scoring honors over Oklahoma A. & M.'s 7-ft. Bob Kurland (TIME, Dec. 25), as DePaul hung up its 15th victory...