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...complexion of the game changed sharply in the third period. No one knows what Eli coach Jordan Olivar told his boys at halftime, but whatever he said, it worked...
...whole complexion of the game changed in the bottom of the second. Bernstein redeemed himself with a single, and Curly Combs worked Bruce Gunkle for a walk. A few baters latter stocky Dick Diehl rambled up to the plate and shocked the Middies with a 380 foot blast to dead centerfield. Diehl rumbled around the bases and tied the score...
...have scored impressive beats on RTF. In 1959 Europe Number One scooped RTF by six hours with on-the-scene recordings of the Frejus Dam break. During last summer's peasant sitdown strike in Brittany, RTF prudently quoted Lc Figaro, a Parisian daily that put the rosiest possible complexion on the strike; Number One's mikes picked up, live, the protests of the Breton peasants themselves...
Johns Hopkins' drive was largely powered by President Milton Eisenhower, who says, "I won't rattle a tin cup, but I'll tell the story." In five years, he has changed his school's financial complexion from red to black and doubled the budget to $61 million. The new take of $18 million, most of it earmarked for buildings, made Johns Hopkins eligible for a second heat. All the university has to do is raise another $12 million and Ford will give it another $6,000,000. With an alumni body that is notably longer...
...greatness in Grant. Anyone who wanted to talk to him had only to show up in his reception room. Writes Hyman: "Stanton personified force and competence as he stood behind the tall desk, looking each visitor squarely, almost defiantly, in the eye, his wide forehead flushed, his complexion dark and mottled, his lips compressed above his immense black beard, which gave off a mixed odor of tobacco and cologne...