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...late 20's and early 30's the Holy Cross game immediately preceded the Yale game, but it was no breather as proved by the 27 to 0 win that Crusaders scored in 1930. In 1929, Coach Arnold Horween played his second team against Holy Cress but was compelled to send in his regulars after an over first half. The Crimson scored in the third and fourth quarters...
...Baseball's Joe DiMaggio, taking a breather from the pennant race, made his bow on television with the Joe DiMaggio Show (Sat. 5:30 p.m., NBC-TV), first in a weekly series for a toymaker (Lionel trains). Looking handsome and assured, the Yankee Clipper showed flashbacks of the 1947 New York-Brooklyn World Series, interviewed teammate Phil Rizzuto on playing shortstop. For the last 5 minutes, DiMaggio turned the program over to a panel of goggle-eyed admirers, seemed to enjoy himself hugely watching Rizzuto answer questions from baseball-minded youngsters. As if Hero DiMag wasn't enough...
...Bulldogs face no "breather" in the Bowl this week. Herman Hickman will run a fast backfield but a light line against Brown, expected leader of the Ivy League's weaker teams...
After 2,000,000 words of testimony, it was time, said Senator Millard Tydings, to take a breather. Over the protests of its two Republican members, the Tydings subcommittee voted to hear no more from Senator Joe McCarthy or any witnesses until it had produced an "interim report" on charges of Communists in Dean Acheson's State Department...
...nearly everybody else last week as governors of 43 states and two territories gathered for the 42nd annual Governors' Conference. Tom Dewey, usually the star of the show, was all but ignored now that he had decided to take a breather from politics. Both Warren and Duff had just scored thumping primary victories in two of the nation's biggest states. At press conferences, Warren was relaxed and expansive. Duff, in what his personal publicity men warned him was his first appearance on the "big time," was nervous at first, clasping and unclasping his big, brown-freckled hands...