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This week's game against Maryland will be U.C.L.A.'s toughest of the season. To hear Harvey Knox tell it, Ronnie will win it singlehanded. "Maryland? Why, if Ronnie don't throw for five or six touchdowns, I'll disown him. I'll cream him." Red Sanders suffered from a little more professional pessimism: "If we get hurt in one or two places, we could go down pretty fast...
...many plays in the past have suffered from, and have eventually overcome, such problems as lukewarm reviews and extended revisions. What hit Silk Stockings in Boston of January 22 was something entirely new and unexpected. Under the headline: KAUFMANS DISOWN SILK STOCKINGS', the Herald reported how George Kaufman and his wife Leueen McGrath, co-authors of Silk Stockings, had just seen the show in Boston after several weeks of absence from the troupe withdrawing from the production. Kaufman has never made clear whether he did not like the show in Boston or simply thought that Abe Burrows had re-written...
FRANCE, where EDC was born, is now trying hard to disown it. The French cabinet demands an impossible price for ratification of EDC: that the Franco-German dispute over the Saar be settled in favor of France; that the U.S. bail France out of Indo-China; that Britain throw in with EDC as a counterbalance to the Germans; that "the integrity of the French Army" (but not of anybody else's) be written into EDC by means of nine protocols. A German diplomat, reflecting his booming country's self-confidence, scoffed: "Father Pleven expected a girl. It turned...
Before a large crowd, infantrymen bore the kicking, screaming colonel out the door and off to military prison, where he faces trial and a possible three-year jail sentence. The army announced that it would henceforth issue communiques to disown the retired "pajama" officers who have served as military dressing for Communist-front platforms. Justice Minister Negrão de Lima ordered police to ban all further "peace" meetings. "Evidence indicates," he said, "that notorious Communists are found among virtually all peace committees. These peace movements are merely a pretext for Communist propaganda...
...Engels ready for every occasion . . . Instead of laboring to think up something new or to study experience, they have one answer: 'No, that was not said by Marx,' or 'Engels said something else.' If Marx or Engels could rise from the grave . . . they would disown them immediately...