Word: clinchers
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Hoping for a "clincher" in the University political-race, the Young Republican Club will spring Oregon Senator Wayne Morse in an address at 8 p.m. tonight in the New Lecture Hall...
...Commons last week for an initial town-planning appropriation of $2½ million. Ottawa, said he, should be to Canada what London is to England, Paris to France, Washington to the U.S. For good measure, he rang in the Athens of Pericles and the Rome of the Caesars. His clincher: "Canada may have a future greater than that of the countries I have mentioned . . .* It has possibilities of development that no other country begins to possess...
Blonde Mrs. Dorothy Lawlor, who had advertised her willingness to marry any man for $10,000 (TIME, June 7), made her choice. It was Dan Wicker, 33, proprietor of Danny's Musical Bar in Daytona Beach, Fla. The clincher had been a telegram from Danny: "Is you is, or is you ain't gonna be my baby?" Sighed Dorothy: "How could I resist a guy with a sense of humor like that...
...scoreless for three periods, the Eliot attack finally broke loose for two late scores. Quarterback Dave McGiffert passed to Austie Lyne for a 75-yard scorin play, and a few minutes later Lyne climaxed a second march by crashing through right tackle from the one-yard line for the clincher...
...Adrian Quist were down 2-0, then won the doubles and the last two singles matches. It might inspire the 1947 challengers to outdo themselves. It was also enough to put the U.S. stars on their mettle. In next day's opening match, Schroeder beat Pails for the clincher that kept...