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...drowned and killed totaled at least 66, and damage in Ontario was estimated at $100 million. By the time cold currents over Hudson Bay finally put an ice pack on Tourist Hazel, the eighth hurricane of the season had blown up into the year's worst, and the autumn storm season itself was the worst in a decade...
...oppressive summer weather dawdled into autumn, the polite plunk of tennis balls could still be heard on the grass courts of eastern country clubs, where tennis came of age. But the tall, tanned young men who had spent the summer putting the touch on tournament committees with their "amateur" expense accounts had almost all gone west and south for a season...
...Last week the New York Herald Tribune found itself trapped into running a battle page that it had never planned. The Republican Trib announced that it would run a impart series on Page One as a "basic statement of the Administration's position at the start of the autumn campaign." Among the authors: Vice President Nixon, Attorney General Brownell, Treasury Secretary George Humphrey. More than 100 other papers thought the series such a good idea that they bought it. But the first article (by Nixon) had barely hit the streets last week when the Trib heard from the Democrats...
Most football players take at least one bruising season to earn a reputation. Purdue's Leonard ("The Arm") Dawson took just three-quarters of an hour spread across two autumn afternoons. Last month, while the Boilermakers beat Missouri 31-0, the 19th-year-old sophomore spent 23 minutes on the field, threw passes that scored four out of five of his team's touchdowns. Fortnight ago, Dawson took just 22 minutes to upset powerful Notre Dame by tossing four touchdown passes, intercepting one Irish attempt, and kicking three out of four conversions. Final, score: Dawson 27, Notre Dame...
Mountain Day was first started at Smith College to give the young ladies an outing in the beautiful New England autumn to frollo in the mountains and country-side. Now, with mass transportation, it has become an annual exodus to the men's colleges in the tri-state area...