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...fourth period Jim Dorsey came down the center and scored unassisted at 4:38. Anderson scored the Crimson's third and final tally on a solo dash at 3:55 of the final quarter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Middlesex Smashes Freshman Ten, 13-3 | 5/1/1952 | See Source »

...Crimson's top scorer with ten points. After gaining a decisive 10.2 100-yard dash win, he proceeded to upset favored Bob Twitchell in the 220. Due to an unfavorable wind, the time was a disappointing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Track Men Score 82-58 Win Over Rhode Island | 4/21/1952 | See Source »

...Digging Me, Daddy?" Author Ellison's Harlem scenes are done with dash and flavor, and the lingo is right: "Well, git with it! ... You digging me, daddy? Haw, but look me up sometimes, I'm a piano player and a rounder, a whisky drinker and a pavement pounder. I'll teach you some good bad habits. You'll need 'em." Author Ellison knows all about the mountebanks and charlatans, political and otherwise, who prosper in Harlem, and his examples (especially Ras the Exhorter, who fancies himself as a black Messiah) are richly drawn. The book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Black & Blue | 4/14/1952 | See Source »

Maurice "The Rocket" Richard scored on a sensational length of the ice dash last night to spark the Montreal Canadiens to a 3 to 1 victory over the Boston Bruins in the seventh and deciding game of the semi-finals of the National Hockey League Stanley Cup playoffs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: National Sports | 4/9/1952 | See Source »

...military training didn't bother Billy too much ("Drill, drill, a little more drill. Then drill, and lastly drill. Between drills we drill . . ."), and the discipline was generally not too severe. In battle, Billy proved his salt. He did not have the dash and gallantry of Author Wiley's Johnny Reb. but sometimes he could pull up his coat collar and walk into a hail of bullets "the same as I would go through a storm of hail and wind." He did not go looking for trouble. "The diferance between dyeing today and tomorrow is not much," wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: The Men Who Wore the Blue | 3/31/1952 | See Source »

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