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...grow they did. Hands grew more skillful and inventions multiplied.* So Pluto fell off a cliff-what next? His ears whirled around like propellers, his front legs spread like wings, and back he roared to safety. In Disney's hands the laws of physics turned to taffy. Shadows walked away from bodies. Men got so angry they split in two. Trains ate cookies. Autos flirted. People stretched like rubber bands. But it became harder and harder to outwit the public. Disney gags got downright erudite. In one cartoon Donald Duck might walk over the edge of a cliff...
...CRIMSON takes pleasure in announcing the election of its Executive Board for 1955-56: Cliff F. Thompson '56, of Fairway, Kan., and Lowell House as President; John Jay Iselin '56 of Greenville, S. C., and Eliot House as Managing Editor; Charles Michael Dicker '56 of New York and Everett St., Cambridge, as Business Manager; William Warren Bartley, III '56 of Pittsburgh, Pa., and Eliot House as Editorial Chairman; Stephen S. B. Shohet '56 of Willard Rd., Brookline, and Leverett House as Photographic Chairman; Jack Rosenthal '56 of Portland '56 of Portland, Ore., and Dunster House as Associate Managing Editor; steven...
...Sergeant Gilbert Georgie Collier, 22, of Tichnor, Ark., who was injured when he and his commanding officer stepped off a cliff in total darkness deep in enemy territory. Collier refused to go back with the rest of the unit, but stuck it out with his commanding officer. They crawled back up the cliff, hid, were ambushed and separated. Collier was wounded, ran out of ammunition, and routed four of the enemy with his bayonet before being rescued. He died at a battalion aid station...
...face of a strong Democratic attack and McCarthyite desertions. Election night, Case's opponent, Congressman Charles Howell, claimed that he had won. But by morning Howell's early 100,000-vote lead had been wiped out, and the Case-Howell race became a case of cliff-hanging suspense. By next day, as corrections were made and absentee ballots counted, Case's 200-vote margin widened to 3,308, equal to about one-fifth of 1% of the 1,700,000 votes cast...
...previous games the Yardling ground attack has been able to score only six points, but the passing combination of tailback George Hasiotis and end Joe Herlitty has consistently gained yardage. In addition to Hasiotis, the other members of the starting backfield will be fullback Ray Craven, quarterback Cliff Erickson, and wingback Al Steiner...