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...Crimson will have a chance to move up out of last place by beating Dartmouth here in Cambridge this Saturday. Both Brown and Dartmouth are yet to chalk up a league win, but both have a man placing first in individual honors. MacConnell of Brown is the foremost punter, while Dartmouth's Clayton leads in the passing department...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lowenstein Second in Ivy League Percentage of Completed Passes | 10/26/1950 | See Source »

...Jump. Appearances were deceptive. Time & again Patty's deftly placed drop shots outmaneuvered his opponent; his baseline drives were flicking up puffs of chalk. He won the third set, 6-2, kept up the pressure to run out the match in the fourth, 6-3. The new Wimbledon champion did not, however, test his remaining stamina by trying to jump over the net. He put one leg across, nearly pulling down the net, then walked toward the umpire's stand with an arm around Frank Sedgman's neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Another Budge | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

...only thing that seems certain is the fact of rising costs. "Everything," says Amherst's President Charles W. Cole, "has gone up-from chalk to footballs." Indeed, chalk is up 30%, footballs 59%, steel desks 50%. President James Phinney Baxter of Williams has noted: "The frogs used by our biology teachers [have] jumped from 72? to $2.25 a dozen . . ." All in all, the cost of running a campus has soared nearly 70% over what it was ten years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Crisis in the Colleges: Can They Pay Their Way? | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

...speaking at the University of Oklahoma, Wayne Coy, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, had said: "When a comedian gets so big that his network can no longer handle him. then we have a case of the tail wagging the dog. The boy who used to express himself with chalk on a wall is now provided with a television screen . . . This type of comedian is stilt peddling livery stable humor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Who, Me? | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

Sandwiching his dramatic statements between barrages of involved medical descriptions--which included chalk drawings and ten minutes of Kodachrome slides--Ford testified...

Author: By John J. Sack, (SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON.) | Title: Ford Denies Sander Air Shot Fatal | 3/8/1950 | See Source »

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