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Coach Tom Dent of Dartmouth has named the following lineup: Mottola, Teahan, r.h.b.; Orr, c.h.b.; Koelsch, g.; Saunders, r.f.b.; Rendall, l.f.b.; l.h.b.; Smith, r.o.; Deane, r.i.; Eckardt, c.f.; Earle, l.i.; Price...
...Coop, which was intended to force local dealers to moderate prices by offering low rates itself, hasn't been wholly successful in this respect, except in the case of textbooks. But the more direct methods of the Council's Bureau many make a dent where the Coop did not. However, the final success of the scheme depends on the extent to which undergraduates actually care where their money goes. If it is found easier to pay more than to carry a complaint to a Bureau representative, the plan will languish. On the other hand, if it catches...
Cartoonist Price's first big dent in U.S. humor was made with a New Yorker drawing depicting a man floating near the ceiling over his bed, while his wife remarks casually to a visitor: "He's been up for three weeks now, and there's nothing we can do about it." Since then Price has specialized in a sort of incongruity that borders on surrealism. Key to his humor is the casual gravity with which his long-faced, sprain-skulled characters regard the most highly improbable situations. Drawn with a fast line that gives them the appearance...
Three more 1942 model cars were on display this week. They proved that shortages and priorities have made scarcely a dent in the new cars-at least...
...they detected on the floor of the House was nothing to what came from the committee room itself. The ten Republican members of the committee, led by Massachusetts' Allen Treadway, issued a nose-holding minority report, aimed at the New Deal's failure to make any real dent in the non-defense spending that made the tremendous new tax bill for defense necessary...