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Secondly, the Indians have proved that this performance is no flash in the pan. On their arduous Western trip they picked up two rough and tumble wins over a highly regarded Minnesota team, and split two game series with both Illinois and Colorado. At present the Indian record reads seven wins and two setbacks. HARVARD DARTMOUTH Loring, lw lw, Rondeau Ayres, c c, Cannon Harding, rw rw, Harrison Dreher, ld ld, Krol Summers, rd rd, Gerber Fenn, g g, Lapres...
...There is a natural affinity between sport and book collecting. . . . The joys of the chase and the exultation in achievement after an arduous hunt, whether of fox, pheasant or folio, have much in common." Thus graciously the Grolier Club last week mixed foxes and folios in an exhibit of members' sporting books and prints in its Manhattan clubhouse. Within its print-hung, paneled walls, smelling of old leather bindings and armchairs, the Grolier is a club of booklovers more interested in a richly tooled cover than in a succulent footnote or limpid trochee. It was founded...
...Mormon Church. Beginning with a cruelly realistic, play-by-play account of the persecution of the Latter-Day Saints in Illinois, Producer Zanuck moves his Mormons across the western plains through a succession of bouts with cold and starvation; plants them by the Great Salt Lake for an arduous, hungry winter, a pitched battle with crickets, a final miraculous victory assisted by a flock of sea gulls which arrives in the nick of time...
Every year numerous undergraduates save the price of admission, and in some cases obtain extra money, by work at the Stadium during the football season. The work is not arduous and the total number of hours spent at the Stadium during the football season is not great...
...voted on whether or not they should have a union (and which union) to bargain for them with their bosses. Six years ago, before the Wagner Act and NLRB, such an election would not have been possible in the U. S. Three years ago, before sitdowns and the slow, arduous lesson in industrial relations which followed, such an election could not have been held in General Motors. Last week, on corporation property, corporation time and with the corporation blessing, 68% of the employes in 48 plants chose the C. I. O. autoworkers' union, 21% preferred a rump...