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Brownie Reid has other troubles besides the Early Bird. In his eagerness to sweep out the cobwebs from the paper (TIME, April 18), he has also swept out much of the paper's oldtime esprit de corps. "In the past year," said one Trib veteran, "there has been complete unrest in the city room." The Trib has been losing many of its top staffers and promising younger newsmen. City Editor Fendall Yerxa quit, to be replaced (TIME, May 30) by hard-boiled Luke Carroll, onetime Trib Chicago correspondent. Close to a dozen other staffers, including John...
...third touchdown, aroused Packers who had tackled him too late tossed him back to the 5-yd. line. Layne laughed out loud at such manhandling. He was having the time of his life. "They're a wild bunch," says one of their opponents, "but they have an esprit de corps which most coaches in the league feel keeps them on top. It sounds sorta high-schoolish but in that play-off game for the championship last year, the Browns were ahead, 16-10, there were only a couple of minutes left to play, and the Lions had 80 yards...
...difficulty of preserving the famed Dartmouth esprit d' corps is perhaps less immediately serious, but more difficult to resolve. Dartmouth officials hope that by making the school itself more appealing, they can keep students in Hanover--safely. To this end, President John Sloan Dickey began a $5,000,000 fund drive in 1946, which included among its objects the building of an elaborate student union. This would have featured bowling alleys, game rooms, and lounges; but the primary objection from a student view-point was succinctly expressed by a cynical undergraduate who asked; "It won't have any girls, will...
...January 1951, De Lattre blunted the Communist offensive at Vinnyen, 25 miles short of Hanoi. In April he stopped them at Dongtrieu. and in May, again, at the Day River. The high-riding French coined a new phrase: Esprit De Lattre. In November, the great soldier cried, "From now on, the initiative is mine," and launched France's biggest attack. But the Communists faded back into the jungles, and would not give battle...
...Dealism, New York's Herbert Lehman, defended his last month's vote for McCarthy's committee appropriation by saying: "To withhold all funds from a legally constituted committee of the Senate would furnish grounds for a plausible claim that its activities has been sabotaged." This congressional esprit was one of the factors that Stevens underestimated...