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...Tokyo, Japanese businessmen saw a hidden meaning in the fact that some of the U.S. team members had corporate ties, especially their leader, Graham Steenhoven, a Chrysler personnel supervisor. Convinced that Steenhoven carried secret orders to clinch a business deal with Peking, Japanese automen telexed their U.S. offices to find out everything possible about him. Told that he was not listed among Chrysler's top executives, they cabled again: "Impossible, look harder...
...successful purveyor of sexy underwear; MacFadden-Bartell Publishing, publishers of True Story, Photoplay, and True Confessions; and corporate dress codes, from Bonwit's to United Airlines to California's Jeans West; are often fascinating, despite their sometimes under-researched, often slightly censorious poses. At least Rags has a firm clinch on its enemies. And its rather foolish compulsion to overkill with a succession of such body blows is often fun to watch...
Leather kept hitting flesh and each punch sent the receiver reeling backwards, sprinting, even more glassy-eyed away from his foe, who followed in hot pursuit. The round ended with both men in a desperate clinch...
Entering its final dual meet of the year. Harvard's varsity wrestling team needs a victory today over Pennsylvania to clinch second place in the Ivy League and to finish the season with an excellent 14-5 record. The meet...
...victories by Captain Pat Coleman and Collin Mangrum lifted the Harvard varsity wrestling team to a 19-15 victory over Yale last night in New Haven to all but clinch a ? for second place in the Ivy League. Both Yale and the Crimson now hold 4-4 Leagne records and trail defending champion Princeton which stands 5-0. The Bulldogs meet the Tigers on Saturday but are given almost no chance of an upset. while Harvard entertains fourth place Pennsylvania...