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Last week before the Big Red's annual Thanksgiving Day game with Penn, word leaked out that head football coach George K. (Lefty) James had gotten the axe. After the 18-7 loss, James confirmed it in an official statement to the press: "...it appears to the University's best interests that I resign...
Screwing up his pride at a return Soviet embassy luncheon. President Kekkonen toasted Soviet-Finnish friendship but said that domestically, Finland would never forsake democracy, "even if the whole of the rest of Europe went Communist." Callously ignoring the presence of Hertta Kuusinen, Finland's Communist battle-axe (whose father is a member of the Soviet Party Secretariat in Moscow), Khrushchev amicably agreed: "I am sure nobody wants Communism here...
After a 14-14 tie in 1936, the Crimson took two of its most convincing decisions over the Tigers, 34 to 6 in 1937, and 26 to 7 in 1938. From 1939 to 1946, Harvard won three, lost one, and tied one, but in 1947 the axe fell...
...stomat!" Blossom's nose needs wiping, Matawhero's shirt must be tucked in, Dennis' lost pencil found, Twinnie's tears crooned away, lice plucked from Mere's hair. And more screams: "Miss Popoff, Seven he's trying to kill us all with the axe for nutteen!" Anna revels in the torrent of these different personalities, faces and colors. She thinks to herself that if she had ever borne children she would have wanted them this way-the "offspring of many sires...
...problem of determining whether one is part of that 37 per cent, and if so when the axe is liable to fall or whether it wouldn't be a better idea to volunteer and end the suspense, gives countless students insomnia and nervous jitters. If, however, the benign American military were interested in the mental stability of its potential servitors, it could either declare for a policy of Universal Military Training or for the establishment of a professionally attractive standing army. Neither thought seems to have much appeal for the Pentagon, possibly because the Joint Chiefs of Staff are less...