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...California looked in September like a contender for the Pacific Coast championship; it seemed a cinch for a bid to the Rose Bowl. With the superb passing of All-America Candidate Paul Larson, last season's leading ground gainer, how could they lose? Then Oklahoma's Max Boydston, a big end who runs like a fullback, taught them how in their first game. After that, Ohio State, Oregon and U.S.C. drove the lesson home. Larson alone was not enough. Last week California lost another to U.C.L.A., 27-6. ¶ Illinois was an odds-on favorite...
Novelist du Maurier's 18th book, a Book-of-the-Month-Club selection for July and a cinch to be both a bestseller and a movie, will not be escaped by many-and many may not want to escape...
...Stall 2 of the paddock, Owner Vanderbilt and Trainer Winfrey talk casually with visitors. The tack is carried in, and as Winfrey pulls tight the cinch belt the Dancer rears. The crowd gasps, but the horse, icy calm again in a moment, is saddled and led to the walking ring. Instructions to Guerin are simple: "Ride him with confidence...
...Johnson is still healthy and hardworking. He sounded wistful about quitting the Senate, but Fern Johnson, squeezing his hand, was "just wild with joy." Republicans were delighted, too. Johnson's Senate seat, previously a Democratic cinch, is now open to capture...
...Hills, Calif. Editor Lait doubled the Mirror's circulation, with Nightclub Columnist Lee Mortimer turned out four controversial "Confidential" guides to U.S. scandal and vice. Asked how he kept up his prodigious writing output (8 plays, 20 books, 1,500 short stories), Author Lait rasped: "Fiction is a cinch. I just set the screw in my head for 2,800 words, and out it comes. Not only do I not rewrite, I don't read...