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...Maroon and Gold were never expected to be in the game, and they didn't disappoint. Leicester fielded a fairly heavy and very slow squad that showed no effective offensive or defensive end play, no passing ability, no pass defense, and a pathetic lack of conditioning...
Last week Butter & Egg Man Harbour got this reply from Delhi's Chief Commissioner Shankar Prasada: "I am sorry to disappoint you, but I much regret to say that I have not had the pleasure of meeting the 'Human Top,' much less see it whirl ... I hope that this will be a warning to you and to many other credulous gentlemen not to take seriously . . . the sensational nonsense that is sometimes published about the so-called Mysterious East." Delhi's Hindustan Times added its own tart postscript: "Our American friends are ... sometimes no better than grown...
...Sorry to disappoint old Uncle Joe again, but the Russians are not the first to use a cyclodrome on a global basis [TIME, May 22]. We saw one in a fair last year...
...Henry Lamar might want to scout a few high school games in season, and drop around to the locker room after the game. It wouldn't disappoint the old grads in the end zone if an undefeated Harvard played Yale for a change...
...cast a sardonic glance around. Most of new Editor Ruppel's worried staff, who had heard about his temper, his Anglo-Saxon expletives and "off-with-their-heads" methods, half-expected to be eaten alive. Editor Ruppel, though still recovering from a spinal operation, did not entirely disappoint them...