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Unless coach Bruce Munro has done a good "psych job" on the varsity soccer team, today's contest with Brown could be a dismal affair. The Bruins, after gaining their first win of the season last Saturday against Cornell, would like nothing better than to add the Crimson to its small list of victims. Game time is 11 a.m. on the Business School Field...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Soccer Team Faces Brown | 11/12/1960 | See Source »

...varsity soccer team's hopes for the Ivy League title took a steep dive yesterday at Hanover, as Dartmouth whipped the Crimson, 5 to 2. In a thoroughly dismal defensive showing, the varsity allowed more goals to be scored against it than in any other contest in several years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Indian Soccer Team Defeats Crimson, 5-3 | 10/22/1960 | See Source »

...named for his brother, who died in an airplane explosion over the English Channel). But though Joe died for his country in Europe, and Jack's heroism in the Solomons became a great wartime tale of the South Pacific, Bobby's naval service consisted of six dismal months in the Caribbean, spent mostly scraping paint, with no sign of the enemy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Little Brother Is Watching | 10/10/1960 | See Source »

With high hopes for a comeback from last year's dismal showing, the varsity cross country team will face a fair to middling Cornell squad this morning at 10 a.m. in Ithaca...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Harriers To Face Cornell | 10/8/1960 | See Source »

...These dismal lyrics are modestly acknowledged by their author to be "the last great hope of the world." If they catch on, he argues, they will shame the Russians into releasing U-2 Pilot Powers; if they fail, the U.S. can expect total war. By last week, the twangy contribution to international amity had notched its sixth week on the pop charts, and this more limited achievement seemed to be enough to please the man responsible: 45-year-old Country-Western Singer Dave McEnery, known to his fans as Red River Dave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Handcuffs & Headlines | 8/22/1960 | See Source »

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