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...According to Laguerre, Paris is "the real meeting ground of the ideas and trends that indicate the shape of tomorrow's Europe and, perhaps, of the world. As for our part in it, mostly it is a job of probing and explaining, trying to get at the facts behind the loose statements, to assess the trends correctly as they first manifest themselves...
Moody Mystic. An example of the bad news filtering into Republican headquarters came from Minnesota, where Minneapolis Tribune polls showed moody Senator Joe Ball lagging 12 points behind his Democratic opponent, Minneapolis' glib, gregarious Mayor Hubert Humphrey Jr. Plugging away like a tired messiah, obviously uncomfortable at grass-roots campaigning, gangling Joe Ball was fighting for his political life...
Because of the Negro, guilt haunts the whole U.S., South and North. But the North's guilt is glossed over by the hypocritical assumption that it has "solved" the Negro problem-in principle and on paper. Behind the South's gloss of "states' rights" is defiance and fear...
...former seasons, the Freshmen enter the game completely untried and untested, and with little more than a week of actual practice as a unit behind them. Even though the '51 Yardlings trounced Andover by four touchdowns, the prep school boys have the big benefit of actual experience as a team, and thus nobody will be able to guess which way the ball will bounce come game time...
Even as the freshman football team enjoys top billing at Soldiers Field this afternoon, behind the barricades of the Blood Pit the Jayvee squad takes on Leicester Junior College. It will be the first game of the season for the Jayvees...