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...start of the fourth period, with Penn leading 21 to 14. The Crimson had just scored after a 15-play march, but Penn, sparked by Frank Riepl's 40-yard run, had a first down on the Crimson four-yard line. Everyone in the Stadium knew another touchdown would clinch the game, while a successful goal line stand could give the Crimson impetus for the tying touchdown...

Author: By Bernard M. Gwertzman, | Title: Penn Eleven Outplays Crimson, 28-14 | 11/5/1956 | See Source »

Otherwise, Satellite is rocketshipshape with searching dialogue ("You knew the rocket was my job when you married me"), a crisis (the bomb sticks to the ship's hull), an addled scientist (Donald Wolfit), and a final clinch between Reporter Maxwell and craggy-browed Pilot Kieron Moore. After 85 harrowing minutes Satellite makes port, leaving the corn barrier sadly shattered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 17, 1956 | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

...Stevenson has taken a big lead with his moderate, brothers-in-arms appeal to party unity. It is his clear strategy to coddle the Democratic Baby. He wants no wounded feelings or angry yowling. He hopes to lie low in the last weeks before the convention while his managers clinch his nomination with a starkly simple piece of advice to uncommitted delegates: "Jump onto the bandwagon while there are still choice seats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: The Care & Feeding of the Baby | 7/16/1956 | See Source »

...have Twink in his play: "The only people who can play children are children." The kindly producer's kindly playwright writes in a fat part for Mama Girl, and at the smash New York opening, who should turn up but Papa Boy and Peter Bolivia Agriculture. Curtain. Clinch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Time to Shoot Santa | 6/4/1956 | See Source »

...Elis are at least ten goals better than the Crimson on comparative Ivy scores, having defeated all four league opponents this year. Should Yale win tomorrow's contest, it will clinch the championship. Dartmouth could tie for the title if it defeats Penn and the Elis lose...

Author: By Jerome A. Chadwick, | Title: Improved Varsity Lacrosse Squad To Face Powerful Elis Tomorrow | 5/11/1956 | See Source »

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