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...Nassau look a trific weary today there may be more behind the halting step and the glassy eye than the effects of gazing upon Yankee Boston or the defeat at the hands of Penn last week. For the grand old Tiger tradition of the "dink" wars and the "cane spree" had a bloody post-war renaissance last week and the Princeton Freshmen and Sophomores are still counting their bruises...

Author: By Rafael M. Steinberg, | Title: Tiger Revives Internecine Cane Feuds, Battles Over Dink-Wearing | 11/8/1947 | See Source »

...sophomores, it appears, came out on top of the struggle this year. Their victory in the "cane spree" finals earned them the right to sit on the Princeton side of the field during a football contest with a certain Connecticut college next Saturday. But the Freshmen can doff the dinks by beating their New Haven counterparts, the Daily Princetonian informs...

Author: By Rafael M. Steinberg, | Title: Tiger Revives Internecine Cane Feuds, Battles Over Dink-Wearing | 11/8/1947 | See Source »

Toward the end of the first act of "Sweethearts," Bobby Clark juggles his ubiquitous cigar on a cane and wonders if "there was ever a plot so complicated and yet so thin." Probably not; but the sting of the conjecture is mitigated by Clark's shenanigans, proceeding, as he does, to make the Victor Herbert musical noteworthy indeed. The stumpy comic with the skin-tight specs and vaudeville mannerisms compensates for the shortcomings of the rewritten plot, and should satisfy all but those with tin ears and antediluvian morals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

Emma moved steadily westward, then veered northward off the Virgin Islands. Meteorologists figured that she would probably keep on going northward-as most Caribbean hurricanes have done before -through a low-pressure trough created by two high-pressure banks. But the "highs" converged so fast that the big 'cane's northward path was blocked. For six hours, she stood ominously still near the Bahamas. When she started to roll again, she headed westward, straight for Florida's southeast Gold Coast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEATHER: Two-Punch Emma | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

Along 25 miles of the old Spanish trail between Biloxi and Bay St. Louis, Miss., hardly a building was left standing. Sea walls buckled. Gulf coast beaches and roads were littered with poisonous water moccasins, blown and washed in from marshy offshore islands. Thousands of acres of sugar cane were flattened. Tidal waters flooded Louisiana's bayou country. New Orleans got a day-long battering which left it a-clutter with twisted autos, broken power lines, shattered windows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEATHER: Two-Punch Emma | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

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