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Jacques LaFrance finished a solid fifth, but it remained for two darkhorses, Robin Nelson and Sam Young to apply the clincher, as they finished ninth and tenth, well ahead of Yale's fourth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New York Rugby Club Favored Over Weakened Crimson Today | 11/2/1957 | See Source »

Dunster won its fourth game in six starts by edging Leverett 2 to 1. Left wing Jean-Claude Aime paced the Funster attack and scored the initial goal, while Frank Loewald applied the clincher...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dudley, Dunster, Adams Triumph | 10/24/1957 | See Source »

...money was as distasteful as the fight itself. Between rounds, a glassy-eyed young pitchman trundled before the viewing public one dull, lumpy Buick "salesman" after another. Wearing Panama hats, they muttered mostly about this being a dandy time to get a good deal on a Buick. The clincher came at the fight's crucial moment. As Referee Ruby Goldstein snaffled the bludgeoned Jackson away from his opponent and signaled a TKO, Buick butted in, sealing off to millions of viewers all the activity in the ring. Some 400 letters of protest bombarded Buick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Bad Timing | 8/12/1957 | See Source »

...Marine Corps who wears his uniform with any more pride than our airmen . . . Come now. Reader Beardmore, why didn't you sign your rank? Just plain "Robert J. Beardmore, U.S.A.F." won't do, you know. Surely you're not ashamed of being an officer. The clincher is the patronizing way you refer to "our airmen." An enlisted man would lave said "we airmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 15, 1956 | 10/15/1956 | See Source »

...first appointed FRB chairman by Harry Truman, succeeding Thomas (Scot-tissue) McCabe, who resigned in midterm, Martin had a hard time convincing fellow Democrats at Senate confirmation hearings that he would not allow the FRB to be dominated by his longtime friend John Snyder. Martin's clincher: "I'm not going to be a stooge for Snyder. I have too much respect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: The Banker's Banker | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

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