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...have been named by the sportswriters as the "upset of the half-century" last year when this Yale game was considered at the time, of far greater import. But perhaps in the long run it is only right that the Centre game should stand out above all as the "darkest hour" for the Crimson as a national power. When Bo McMillan scored the game's only touchdown on a 32 yard dash, he ended more than a five-year streak which included a Rose Bowl victory. He had unwittingly written finis to the scourge of the nation's gridirons. Harvard...
Help from the Dodgers. The turning point for the Giants came just when things looked darkest. One night in mid-August, they were 12½ games behind, and they had just taken a three-game whipping from the Dodgers. Through the dressing-room door, the Giants could hear the Dodger cries of derision: "Eat your heart out, Leo ... So that's your kind of team. Well, you can have it." Then the Dodgers started chanting a rollicking song: "Roll out the barrel, we've got the Giants on the run." Over in a corner, a reporter asked Durocher...
...major fault was perhaps that he wanted too much to be a King. As constitutional monarch of the Belgians, he had adamantly, and often bravely, refused to take a back seat while his ministers ran the country. His willfulness had led him into many dark hours, the darkest of which was his surrender of the Belgian army to Hitler in 1940. In recent years, Leopold's stubborn refusal to give up the throne of which more than half his people felt he was no longer worthy deeply rent Belgium...
...worried-looking man, the ex-witch doctor did not take to lighthearted Paris, made only a few appearances there, always seemed to his colleagues in the Senate to be thinking of home. Home he went. On some political business on the Ivory Coast, Senator Biaka-Boda was driving through darkest Africa in January 1950 when, at Bouaflé (pop. 1,000), the car broke down. Instructing his chauffeur to repair it, Senator Biaka-Boda strolled off into the jungle to stretch his legs. That was the last of the Senator until, in November, some charred bones were found...
...Other familiar French figures to whom the day brought victory: able Foreign Minister Robert Schuman (MRP); Former Premier Georges Bidault (MRP); Minister of National Defense Jules Moch (Socialist). Also elected were two strays from France's darkest days: Munich-going Edouard Daladier (Radical) and Paul Reynaud (Independent), Premier at the time of the fall of France...