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...there were any odd, unwithered hopes lying around loose before Saturday's football game with Princeton, they must have died a painful death before nightfall. Black as the 1947 grid season looked before, blacker does it look now for the tattered colors of the Crimson...
...first only the crew, the longshoremen and the local fire department troubled about the Grandcamp. But as the smoke rolled blacker, some 200 people gathered at the dock to watch. By 9 a.m., the fire fighters, who knew something about the explosive fury of nitrate, figured they had better move the ship out into Galveston Bay. Twelve minutes later it was too late...
With that black thought-and the blacker thoughts of the copy desk-Miss Sulzberger gave up for the night. Next morning she asked our Washington office where they had found the verse to include in their research. Washington replied that it had been enclosed in a letter to a Congressman from a constituent in Spokane. His name was Jack Knight, and they gave his telephone number...
...Throughout most of Asia, the white man is truly hated and the sky is black with chickens coming home to roost-probably blacker in Indonesia than anywhere except Indo-China. The natives' passions run away with their leaders' intellects. I am inclined to doubt whether whites and colored will work together in this generation...
DICK JENKINS, six foot, 190-pound right end is the fastest man on the Eli squad. A stand-out down-field blacker and always one of the first blue warriors down under punts, he has spent much of his time this year in enemy backfields...