Word: effort
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...able to find numerous holes, especially at end and tackle, in the Princeton defense. Tom Gannon whose 66-yard dash for the second Harvard touchdown was a dazzling sprint on a reverse from the T, enjoyed an especially good day, gaining 128 yards in 13 carries. Another Gannon effort, a nine-yard off-tackle slant in the fourth period, wound up in the Tiger end zone, but was called back by the officials, who claimed the Varsity had a back illegally in motion. Movies this week should support or quash that decision...
Nevertheless, other delegates to the 18-nation Economic & Social Council (called ECOSOC* for short) found Feonov an easier man to deal with than such wolf-eating lambs as Molotov, Vishinsky and Gromyko. Feonov actually promoted shirtsleeved sessions in smoke-filled hotel rooms in an effort to break impasses on the council floor. But he could not break the bonds of Russian policy...
There was more than a British angle to Kenyon's first money raising effort. Founder Chase's original $30,000 for Kenyon was, in fact, the gift of a British group including Lords Kenyon and Gambier (Henry Clay, having met and liked Lord Gambier at the Treaty of Ghent negotiations, gave Chase a letter of introduction to him). Because of this backing, and because Kenyon's first building had walls four feet thick, surrounding frontier settlers suspected the college of being a British fort. Kenyon's ultimate response was the turning out of such stanch...
After four months of furious effort, the fast-moving real-estate firm of Webb & Knapp Inc. had control of a rundown, 30-acre, eight-block area on the East Side (41st to 49th Streets, First Avenue to the East River). Webb & Knapp promptly announced plans to replace the run-down stables, warehouses, slaughterhouses and tenements with the biggest, costliest city-within-a-city ever built. Cost: $150,000,000. Features: a 57-story office building, three 30-story apartments, a 6,000-capacity convention hall, a yacht landing, a helicopter field, a 5,000,000,000-sq.-ft. parking platform...
Meanwhile, in an effort to find a sponsor, the group chose William G. Rueter '46 in absentia as Christopher Robin. Rueter, who heads a small group of Poonsters, was unavailable for comment last night...