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...Crimson has not beaten much top-drawer opposition either. The 7-6 win over B.U. a week and a half ago was their last successful outing against a good opponent; they oked out a 4-3 overtime win over Colby and dropped a depressing one-hitter to Holy Cross...
...Into EGA. With the launching, ERP became ECA, the Economic Cooperation Administration. This week the President picked the man to run it: Paul G. Hoffman, president of the Studebaker Corp. and a top-drawer U.S. businessman (see col. 3). The job was no bed of roses; Mr. Hoffman wanted a little time to think it over...
...passion for neatness (never a stray paper on his desk) and precision (each morning he receives four fresh pencils sharpened to exactly the same length). He dislikes the telephone, which he keeps concealed in a desk drawer, but likes gadgets. His favorite: a system for dimming and increasing the indirect lighting in the governor's office. He never gets excited in public...
...Bernard ("Spils") Spilsbury, who became known as Britain's modern Sherlock Holmes, showed what a doctor can do when he uses his nerve and knowledge to catch criminals. For nearly four decades, connoisseurs of real-life British murders could be sure that the case was really top-drawer when it included the appearance on the witness stand of tall (6 ft. 2 in.) Sir Bernard and his quiet acknowledgment: "I am the senior pathologist of the Home Office...
Alluring Strangeness. Nicolson admits that all great writers have been the least bit peculiar, at that. Germany's Schiller whetted his inspiration by keeping rotten apples in his writing table drawer. Charlotte Brontë often mooned about the house for months without being able to put pen to paper. Milton could write only between October and March; Balzac, Byron, Dostoevsky and Conrad, only at night...