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There is one blemish on the name of Harvard that must be cleared. As the picture so clearly shows, the call of pass Interference on JERRY MECHLING (24) against SCOTT CREELMAN (88) in quite unjustified. Jerry, as any ref could plainly see, was at least a foot in front of the hapless Creelman, who shows no signs of being hit by Mechling or the football. The pass came in the fourth quarter in Dartmouth's last successful touchdown drive; the interference call brought the ball to Harvard's one-yard line, where Dartmouth scored three plays later...
Ernie's next fight should be with journeyman Doug Jones, the number-two contender who lost a controversial decision to Cassius in Madison Square Garden last Spring. Jones, however, maintains hope for a shot at the champ and will soon fight unranked Alex Koskowits instead, to avoid a further blemish on his record. Jones enthusiasts--and they are scarce--point out that at 185 their boy is no lighter than Marciano or Dempsey when he took the title. But then, Jones is no Marciano. Marciano probably would have lasted no more than ten with Liston, and as for Dempsey...
...part of "The Eternal flame of the Confederacy." It kindles a regional pride which once more prompts the Southerner to work for social and economic progress. In North Carolina, South Carolina, and parts of Georgia it even prompted him to accept integration because to do otherwise would blemish the regional image and hold up Southern progress...
...color) that Wyeth painted four years later in 1952. It is a striking portrait in its own right, but the drama is in the subtle conflicts between toughness and tenderness, courage and decay, and in the years of suffering implied by every wrinkle in the flesh and every blemish on the wall. In The Mill, Wyeth tried to capture "the damp feeling, the strength of the land," yet, in this silent scene, a feeling of conflict is still there as the earth struggles to wrench itself from the cold clutch of winter...
...turned wrong side outwards without discovering a blemish to the world." In keeping with the patient, prudent makeup of its author, the Monroe Doctrine was no slapdash improvisation...