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...prediction for fair, brisk weather for today cuts down the possibility of an upset by the Crimson. Munro's group may have stood a better chance of a wet or soggy field...
...hundred heads were bowed, two hundred pencils making brisk, black marks in blue booklets: it was a typical examination day at Princeton. Suddenly from the back of the room came a growing clamor. Three young men were asking questions out loud about the test. They flagrantly pulled-out notes on the reading from their pockets...
...title are ten men who went down with the Australian light cruiser Perth in Sunda Strait at 12:25 a.m. on March 1, 1942 and came up again to tell the tale. They told it after the war to Author McKie, an Australian newsman, who writes in a brisk style that makes for good reading, if for something less than the national epic he frankly says he intended...
When Australia's wool auctions opened last week, world wool producers got a nice lift. Brisk bidding sent quotations as much as 5% higher than the closing prices last June, and about 25% above their early 1952 lows. But Australia's lively market Was not much consolation for U.S. wool growers, who are in what the Agriculture Department calls "a very depressed condition." Annual wool consumption within the U.S. has fallen from the postwar peak of 738 million lbs. in 1946 to 472 million lbs., and price supports on wool have cost U.S. taxpayers $92.2 million...
Latin Lovers (MGM) is concerned with the difficult, rather specialized romantic problems of a multimillionairess. Lana Turner, a brisk Manhattan business girl with a $37 million fortune, worries (silly girl) because she fears that no man can love her for herself alone. She even suspects that well-heeled John Lund ($48 million) may be more interested in merging their factories than in gazing into her blue eyes...