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...even a last-minute injury to fullback Tommy Scannell and the continued inactivity of tackle Nick Fusilier have seemed to dampen the Yale squad, which will meet a Crimson eleven that hit its peak in the Brown game two weeks ago and has not had a chance to show itself again since then...
...dampen such Boy Scout enthusiasm, the Upperclassman tagged along, nodding appreciatively at the mention of O.H. and the Bick. But Adams House was more inviting than a Freshman dorm, so finally he unmasked. '49 retreated in embarassed disorder...
...Deal. Probably the only man to dampen the buying zeal of Trader Hilton is red-faced, reticent ex-Bricklayer Stephen Healy. A contractor at heart, Healy was an uneasy owner of the $28,000,000 lakefront gargantua. But Hilton's obvious passion to own the place made Healy stifle his own eagerness to sell. First, he wanted $500,000 clear profit on the $5,281,000 he had paid the Army for the Stevens, and the $800,000 he had spent on furnishings. Then he coolly upped his profit demand to $650,000, then to a million, finally...
Perhaps the most accurate critical barometer of the evening was the audience, which came to be pleased and left feeling as if they had been asked to give slightly more than they received. Opening night nervousness, line trouble, and direction that lacked pace conspired to dampen considerably the pre-curtain enthusiasm. It is only fair to say, however that The Cambridge Summer Theatre has enormous difficulties in being able to open...
...know what humidity is. They want to know how they're going to feel tomorrow. So this summer we intend to use phrases like 'fairly comfortable' and 'uncomfortable.' " Where another fore caster would rely on the standard "increasing cloudiness and warmer" (words to dampen the enthusiasm of any weekender), Mr. Cameron will carol: "A few light, puffy clouds . . . probably clear weather ahead." Another longtime wish which Weather man Cameron has not yet nerved himself to fulfill is to send the newspapers a daily post-mortem along the lines of "Uh huh, we told...