Word: cub
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scrappy Bruin Cub quintet lost its fur to a dead-eyed Freshman five, 54 to 48, Saturday night in what turned out to be an open season on bears in the Indoor Athletic Building...
Among all the veteran newsmen, big byliners and trained seals who covered the royal wedding, there was one notable cub. For Rebecca West, 55, famed as a novelist, critic and deep student of homo politicus (TIME, Dec. 8), it was her first assignment in spot news reporting. Editor Herbert Gunn of London's Evening Standard had given her his paper's only pass to Westminster Abbey...
...Cub West's "mood piece" was probably the best by any of the 103 reporters in the Abbey; the New York, Times's Veteran Drew Middleton's was perhaps the best from the streets outside, where scores of newsmen covered the processional route. Buffeted by the surging crowds along the Mall, Middleton was lifted up by their surging spirit, as "a river of scarlet and gold and steel flowed through the shabby, cheerful masses of Britain. . . . For a brief moment the pace of the strident, terrible 20th Century was slowed to the trot of cavalry horses...
...Freshman eleven made it a clean gridiron sweep Saturday. Taking charge of the situation from the opening kickoff, the Yardlings slithered their way through what had been an undefeated Brown Cub squad on the muddy Soldiers Field practice lot and sent the Bruins back to Providence at the wrong and of a 20 to 6 score...
Practice during the past weeks included two scrimmages against the Jayvees which brought smiles to Lamar. But reports of the series to triple-threat Cub backs on route from Providence have sobered things up around the Freshman field...