Word: closers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Souriant." Abroad, Harry Truman's victory had raised spirits and stilled fears. Europe felt new confidence that the strong hand of the U.S. would continue to bear it up. To the French, the victory of "Harry le souriant' (smiling Harry) meant that the U.S. people had moved closer to them in spirit. In Greece, Athenian grey-marketeers renamed the street where they sell U.S. goods "Uncle Harry Street." Said a Tel Aviv newspaperman: "He is a simple human being, a man of the people. We would rather trust our fate to him than to the cool, calculating diplomats...
...destined to save modern painting from laziness and chaos . . . The world is going through the middle ages, but a renaissance will follow." He would soon be ready to lead that renaissance: "The world's greatest painters were Velasquez and Raphael -every day I feel I am getting closer to them." There was no challenger. Picasso? "Picasso's works are pseudo-decorative and they all look like rugs...
...monolithic NBC seemed to be having trouble keeping its balance. Last week the Lanny Ross show announced a TV ice show which would feature raspberry-colored ice to eliminate glare from the screen. But a compressor unit failed to do its job and by program time the footing was closer to raspberry sherbet. As a replacement, NBC hustled up some film shorts. Two hours later the ice show finally went...
...dozen syringes of ephedrine couldn't have produced any closer games than the three which started off House A League basketball today in the Blockhouse. Kirkland boat Winthrop by three points, 30 to 27; Eliot won by two points over Adams, 38 to 36; and Dunster was extended into overtime to boat Dudley...
Nevertheless, the Lord Jeffs and the Green were much improved over 1947 last week in their games with the Harvard Club and the Worcester YMCA. While they both lost, they made it closer than anticipated. Something else which will aid Dartmouth and Amherst is the absence of Crimson number four man Milt Heath, who is out of Cambridge...