Word: cross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...installed coach Elmer Lampe, has been a disappointment to court followers who are accustomed to Big Green supremacy hereabouts. The Indians, after squeaking through against Rutgers and Union, among others, by narrow margins, suffered six defeats in a row during the vacation, although they met outstanding competition in Holy Cross, Manhatten, Toledo, Notre Dame, and California, which pasted the Hanover crowd twice. Even more distressing to Lampe, is the graduation in February of Aud Brindley, towering center, and Eddie Leede, another high scorer. Columbia has center Walt Budko, but apparently the Lions need four other guys...
...people in Temper the Wind are a cross section of a Bavarian town, and not so much people as points of view. There is wily Industrialist Benckendorff (Reinhold Schunzel), who has played ball with the Nazis and now wants the Americans to let his closed machine-tool factory go full blast; there is his stiff-necked Prussian sister (Blanche Yurka), his still violently Nazi son-in-law (Tonio Selwart). There is Theodore Bruce (Walter Greaza), a visiting Chicago tycoon who, because business is business, would give Benckendorff cartel blanche; there are various indifferent, homesick American soldiers and officers; and there...
...showed up unabashed in seersucker dresses and dungarees. At Scotland's Loch Lomond (they took the low road) some of them met the German founder of the Hostel movement, 73-year-old Richard Schirrmann. He had been almost blinded when the Nazis tied him to a cross and sprayed his face with tear gas for defying them...
This contest winds up the pucksters' official activities until after mid-year exams with the next contest, against Holy Cross, slated for February...
...Holy Cross--61, Harvard...