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Ordinarily, you'd have to go with Yale by at least two touchdowns, probably three. Brian Dowling is still alive; his exams aren't until January and Calvin Hill returns at halfback this week to bolster the attack. Brown lost quarterback Hal Phillips to an injury while losing to Penn and sophomore Brian Marini must move into the starting lineup. So you have to go with Yale by upwards of three touchdowns: Yale 41, Brown...
...Yale 49-Colgate 14. It was Brian Dowling again. The Eli quarterback passed for two touchdowns and ran for another against hapless Colgate. The romp, which made Yale's game winning streak the longest in the nation, was achieved without the services of star halfback Calvin Hill. Hill will be back in action this, week, and with him and Dowling and the rest it looks as if the Blue winning streak could go on all season...
...TIME, just a little over a year old, reporting on its first presidential nominating convention 44 years ago. The story, while distilling all the essential facts, leaned heavily on the color of straw hats flying, placards pumping and delegations drowning out one another in a near unanimous renomination of Calvin Coolidge. Then, few Americans ever got a chance to witness a convention; today, millions watch the spectacle on TV. As a result, though colorful detail is still an important element in good reporting, it is only the beginning of the reporter's search for what really happened. That search...
...Willard's Hotel," Carl Sandburg once wrote, "more justly could be called the center of Washington than either the Capitol or the White House or the State Department." In August 1923, in fact, it did serve as an interim White House while Calvin Coolidge waited for Warren Harding's widow to vacate the executive mansion two blocks away. Lincoln lived at the Willard with his family before the 1861 inauguration. U. S. Grant would shamble over in the evening to smoke cigars and glower from the armchair set aside for him in a dimly lit corner...
...Luther Calvin...