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...remained for Harvard, however, to strike the last blow in the pre-war battle between the Crimson and the Green, when a 1941 pre-game rally burned to a cinder an effigy on an Indian...
Young's critics thought they could see a large cinder in his own bloodthirsty eye. They said Young's Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co., a major hauler of coal, operates some of the longest, slowest freight trains in the country. Said William T. Faricy, president of the Association of American Railroads: "The C. & O.'s record for average freight train speed is nearly one-tenth below the [national] average." The cynical also thought they could discern a bid for public sympathy in Bob Young's imminent proxy battle for control of the Missouri Pacific Railroad...
...materialized in plump perfection from a Helen Hokinson cartoon, roguishly asked a U.N. guard: "Is this the way to the Big Tent?" In one of the main conference chambers, a husky man with a mallet walked up to a side wall and started to hammer away. The four-inch cinder blocks crumbled under his blows. Soon a vast, vandalistic hole gaped in the wall...
Quarter-miler Cliff Wharton and sprinter Dean Dunlavey were the only additional entries yesterday as the Varsity entrained for West Point, where they have a formal cinder date with Army, Missouri, Dartmouth and Columbia this afternoon. Forty competitors, a manager, coach, and trainer made up the Crimson encourage...
Trailing by nearly 30 points in the early events, the Crimson finally began clicking in the field events and surged past Brown. But Rhode Island's cinder entries had already sewed up the meet. Running like frightened gazelles, they had out-scored the Varsity 38 to 2. Only Wes Flint, who grabbed two easy wins in the hurdles, was able to outrun the visitors...