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Woodsum, the other half of the attack will probably set a Yale record in the Stadium today. One touchdown pass--he has caught eight so far this season--will break Larry Kelley's old mark. Woodsum, who often goes way out on the flank in one of Oliver's open formations, is not the fastest end around, but he is one of the most deceptive. A clever faker, he cuts well, and very rarely drops a ball--as witnessed by the 37 he has received for 545 yards...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: Molloy, Woodsum Lead Powerful Eli Eleven | 11/22/1952 | See Source »

Yale passed out of several spread formations, with Woodsum and the left end, Harry Benninghoff, almost at the side lines, often with a halfback far out on the flank. Because of this, Woodsum's cleverness and are utilized; he is almost as impossible to block at the line of scrimmage as he is to stay with down field...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 11/18/1952 | See Source »

...airlift of troops, arms and supplies to the Black's west bank. He also dispatched a force from the Hanoi perimeter to the confluence of the two rivers. This force occupied the war-battered village of Hunghoa, cut two Communist communication lines, and threatened the left flank of Giap's three divisions between the rivers. It seemed possible that the Reds would have to retreat or come out and fight in the open, where French planes and artillery could get at them. In any case, the next move was General Giap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF INDO-CHINA: Next Move: Giap's | 11/10/1952 | See Source »

Since they lack a domestic program which appeals to the "great masses of citizens," Key said that the test of the Republican's strategy is whether they can "chisel down the Democratic following by flank attacks on the subsidiary issues--of communism, corruption, and foreign policy...

Author: By J.anthony Lukas, | Title: Key Predicts Two-Party System in South; States GOP Lacks New Domestic Policy | 10/15/1952 | See Source »

Walter was hunched up in his windows seat. It was in Matthews, or else in Weld, I have forgotten which. Both Halls flank Grays. It was in the after-luncheon doldrum time of day, when mankind in its senses should be ossified and not prodded. Walter was tired out: "brain fag", the railroad men would call it. He was ripe to be keynoter at a convention on explosives. And all unconsciously, he was just that, for the convention sat in silence in a score of open windows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Classmate of Rinehart Tells How Legend Actually Began | 10/2/1952 | See Source »

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