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...because it could not. However, Messrs. Hickman and Jack Lavalle have seen Harvard's defensive setups. The latter, an operative whose girth is comparable to Hickman's and whose football sagacity is legendary, scouted Army nine times a year for three years while in the employ of the Notre Dame Athletic Association. If he found flaws in the 1944, 1945, and 1946 Army lines he must have noticed by now the carefree fashion in which Princeton and Brown went through the center of Harvard's line. This means that Yale will send fullback Bob Spears into the line early...
...servants in its employ, who have sworn loyalty to its vague sovereignty, live far from home, work hard, and-amid the noble words and great issues raging about them-lead lives of quiet irritation. This week some of these forgotten men & women got a small place in the limelight. At Lake Success, U.N. opened an exhibition of 200 paintings by secretariat members. The pictures gave interesting insights into the preoccupations of people who, sometimes more than the windy statesmen...
Generally, the election issue is whether or not to re-elect Mayor Curley. An extravagant administrator, Curley has spent every cent he can get his hands on plus some of the future tax money, to employ everyone he can. He has, too, allowed even fostered sources of flagrant graft in the city's government. On the other hand, he has accomplished a number of worthwhile projects--housing, recreational facilities, reads. His opponents accuse Curley of keeping the tax rate at a sky-high $56.80; of maintaining high assessment valuation; and of abating assessed valuation discriminately. Yet, Curley can point that...
...week of heavy scrimmaging awaits the Harvard football team in its preparations for Holy Cross, Coach Art Valpey disclosed yesterday. Valpey will employ the scrimmages to improve the team's timing, which was badly off during the Dartmouth game...
Most of the contributors are committed to the conventional realism that has by now become a rut for American storytelling. They concentrate humorlessly on a social or psychological problem, they marshal bony facts in straight platoons of narrative, and they employ the English language with literalness and flatness...