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¶ In Chicago, the Detroit Lions, National Football League Champions last year, agreed to the intercollegiate limited-substitution rule, played an exhibition game of one-platoon football with the College All-Stars, kept their regular quarterback, Bobby Layne, on the bench, and still outshone the Stars in every department. Final...
Hand of Poker. More than 100 amend ments to the New Deal had already been submitted by special interests. The wine lobby, the distillers, the civil servants, the farmers-all had their champions popping up to defend their privileges. Wartime Premier Paul Reynaud, an old-fashioned financier, was alarmed. The...
Everyone could. The suspicious, humorless Soviet crews arrived in France festooned with "secret" instruments (i.e., stopwatches, portable altimeters, audio-timers that would sound a warning buzz in time to pull the ripcord, safety devices for opening chutes automatically at minimum altitude). They brought along three political tutors: an army colonel...
Contested every four years, the Rimet Cup in prewar years used to travel between Latin America and Italy. In 1950 Brazil got into the finals but lost out to Uruguay. Brazil promptly went into a week of mourning. This year the Brazilians were out to cop the cup. The team...
Later last week, the Hungarians patched up their hides, whipped Uruguay, the defending champions, 4-2, and took on West Germany in the finals. The Hungarians had already beaten the Germans (8-3) in the early rounds and figured to do it again. The unforgiving Germans figured otherwise. To almost...