Word: fiascos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most occasions the Bulldogs' orthodox 'T' attack has been adequate-and at times even brilliant as in the 17-7 win over Columbia and in the first half of the Dartmouth game. Discounting the mud-splattered Brown fiasco, however, it has been found wanting in two instances against Wisconsin and Princeton. The answer both times seemed to be the all-round edge of the rival front ranks...
...steady flow of students in and out of the basement emporium yesterday, splitting into four lines which made the longest wait about twenty minutes as opposed to last year's fiasco which found hopeful fans shivering on Quincy Street sidewalks for upwards of two hours...
Halsey's explanation of the Pearl Harbor fiasco will strike most readers as being naive or evasive. He ignores the evidence of Annapolis Classmate Kimmel's laxness (borne out by one of the photographs in Halsey's book, TIME, Oct. 27), writes: "Who, then, is to blame? . . . The attack succeeded because Admiral Kimmel and General Short could not give Pearl Harbor adequate protection. They could not give it because they did not have it to give. . . . The blame for Pearl Harbor rests squarely on the American people and nowhere else...
...fact, the musical sound track of "Song of Love" is almost an undiluted pleasure. The Schubert fiasco was built about one piece, Gershwin's music was abominably played, and Chopin's was doled out in little snippets mostly transcribed for orchestra, but in "Song of Love" Metro has avoided all of these faults. The music is played well, if without much verve, by Artur Rubinstein, and there is lots of it. The film opens with a huge chunk of Loszt's E flat concerto, and later developments weave in all of Brahms' splendid G minor rhapsody, parts of his first...
Maine's self-assured Senator Owen Brewster, whose investigation of Planemaker Howard Hughes was the fiasco of the summer, announced last week that when the tenure of his War Investigating Committee expires next January, it would not be renewed. Explained Brewster: "It was never the intention to continue the special committee. . . . The standing committees should take over these investigations...