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...Buckeyes' record gives Ohio's taxpayers a chance to crow. Supporters of the State University and its most rabid football rooters, citizens last winter demanded that Ohio State hire Paul Brown, a 32-year-old high-school coach, to replace Francis Schmidt. At Massillon (Ohio) High School, Brown had chalked up a record of only one defeat in 60 games. No one expects him to steer the Buckeyes through the season undefeated-with Northwestern, Wisconsin, Illinois and Michigan still to play-but on his record so far Upstart Brown has done the outstanding coaching job of the year...
...Tenafly, N.J., which he has filled to the eaves with U.S. antiques, some of them of very dubious authenticity. There, in an attic studio, surrounded by three stripling sons who alternately bawl, play the clarinet and scatter the floor with toy electric train tracks, he works methodically with a crow quill pen because it produces a large variety of thin and thick lines...
Pending in U.S. courts was a suit by the Philadelphia local challenging its ouster as contrary to the Federation's constitution. But the ousted groups arrived in Detroit in a conciliatory mood, prepared to eat large quantities of crow. They offered to drop their suit, promised to wrangle no more. Federationists overwhelmingly refused to seat them, cheered tumultuously when President George S. Counts cried: "We are extremely fortunate at this juncture that we have had the courage to do a job that should have been done years ago. ... If Stalin should make peace with Hitler tomorrow, as he might...
...infirmities in Walter Reed Hospital. >> Eugene Meyer lost his well-kept temper when his plane hit a storm, a tray-bearing stewardess hit the floor, and a chicken leg came to rest on his trim grey head. >> John L Lewis' maid refused to sit in a Jim Crow seat, got arrested, said "Mr. Lewis will fix you for this." >> Representative Clare Hoffman (R., Mich.) asked that "applause" (to his speech) be stricken from the Congressional Record "because there was none." Speaker Sam Rayburn suggested making such omissions permanent and universal. >> Eleanor Roosevelt offered to refund her half...
...since early this spring, the Harvard crow was rowing with beautiful precision. Those who watch it from launches are hard pressed-to find anything about which to quibble, although Tom Bolles can generally find something which doesn't please him. Eight oars hit the water outboard with chronological precision, and following a powerful pull-through, dip cat with scarcely a splash, all leaving the water at exactly the same moment. Inboard the crew is not quite as balanced, but what few faults there are seem to counteract each other, and the shell's run, even at very high strokes...