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Dartmouth. Unlike Yale, Dartmouth found and hired a new coaching staff with efficient dispatch. Following Princeton's suit, Dartmouth went outside its alumni ranks to pick Earl Henry (''Red'') Blaik, a graduate of West Point where he has been backfield coach for seven years. Head Coach Gar Davidson rated Blaik the real strategist behind Army plays. Like Pond he is quiet, more of a teacher than a driver. College of the City of New York last week hired as head coach Benny Friedman, Michigan's All-American quarterback who retired from professional football last...
Never was an .able newsman more mistaken. By the time Mr. Pettey's dispatch reached the U. S., President Roosevelt had instructed the AAA to pour $10,000,000 worth of foodstuffs and other supplies into Cuba as a loan. Cuba's new Secretary of the Treasury said he would be glad to give every security for repayment in his power-the Cuban Treasury having been notoriously bankrupt for months...
...really care if they ever hear from the Reich again; in fact, if all three countries were to sink rapidly into the sea tomorrow, it would only provide a human interest story for the Boston American, with cuts, and a new job for the Physics profs. The latest cheerful dispatch from Manchukuo, indicating the altruistic mission of a large body of soldiery to "deal with bandits on the Siberian frontier" doesn't bother anyone but the Russians, who, as everyone knows, don't count. In fact, all the European countries are wishing they could run excursion trains into the maritime...
...first possible objection is that I am a trustee, director and stockholder in the Pulitzer Publishing Company, which publishes the St. Louis Post Dispatch...
...Last fortnight, the London Daily Herald claimed the world's biggest circulation (2,030,000). †The 16 Gannett papers: Rochester Times-Union, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Albany Knickerbocker Press, Albany Evening News, Utica Observer-Dispatch, Elmira Star-Gazette, Elmira Advertiser, Elmira Telegram, Newburgh News, Ithaca Journal-News, Olean Herald, Ogdensburg Journal, Beacon News. Malone Evening Telegram (all in New York State). Also Hartford (Conn.) Times, and Plainfield (N. J.) Courier-News...