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Flickering odds have placed the Bulldogs anywhere from two touchdown favorites to even money competitors, as sports writers the country over have been throwing all reason to the winds in calling this spectacular clash. Local bookmakers give the home team an eight-point edge. Yale's injured backs ran smoothly yesterday afternoon as the Elis held their final practice of the year on the Bowl gridiron just before dusk. The squad looked balanced and high-spirited despite its shattering defeats of the past two weekends. Earlier in the afternoon on the same gridiron Harvard was cheerful and showed no signs...
...hunters shot at everything that moved, including each other. In five days, 14 hunters were dead - five by gunshot wounds, nine by heart attack - and many another woods man was grazed by bullets. William Brown spent eight days in Michigan's upper peninsula, trying to get a shot at a deer; on the way home, he ran down and killed an eight-point buck with his automobile. At Boulder Junction, Wis., a rifle bullet crashed through a school bus and the trigger-happy hunter explained that he thought the white lettering on the bus was deer's tail...
...Chiang Kai-shek again coordinated psychological warfare with military operations. As his armies neared victory at Chefoo, the Gissimo abruptly issued a cease-fire order and renewed his invitation to Chinese Communists to participate in the long-postponed meeting this week of China's National Assembly. Like his eight-point peace offer after the fall of Kalgan, it was a gesture from strength...
...could accurately forecast the effect of the Government victories on the Nanking negotiations. The Generalissimo, returning from Formosa, would have new successes with which to confront Chou Enlai. He might stiffen his recent eight-point peace proposal-or modify his demands (as he had done after Kalgan...
...were sick & tired of each other. Throughout their ivory marathon, the score had stayed uncannily close, and toward the end the two masters fell to quarreling like poolroom sharpies. In San Francisco last week they finally reached the end of the line. Cochran first erased Hoppe's slim, eight-point lead, then built up a 48-point margin to keep his world's championship with a grand total of 4,819 points for the go 60-point blocks. To both it seemed like a hard way to earn $6,000 and $4,000, their 60-40 split...