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...jolted Washington with its bland statement that consumer sugar stocks were "only slightly below normal" and that there was no need for rationing. Up jumped the Agriculture Department: "Sugar for use in the continental U.S. is expected to be the smallest in 20 years." Then, with a so-there flip of its head, the Department added: "Rationing is necessary." OPA-which doled out the 130,000,000 sugar-ration cards-quickly and emphatically agreed...
...Lamar and Lyal Clark, the football and Freshman basketball coach allowed himself to be led to the Indoor Athletic Building to be taught how to do the calisthenics he was going to give to his classes. But when the two conspirators urged the unfortunate mentor to do a double-flip, he landed on his neck, and brought on the sad condition he is in at present...
...Brash, flip, pugnacious, the paper is almost as alive as it is illiterate. Items...
...father's connection with the Nazis, Viereck is emphatic in his repudiation of the Hitlerian myth without being unfairly vindictive. Drawing his somewhat vague title from the letters of Richard Wagner, he points out clearly its appropriateness and the significance of its sourse. With a facile and sometimes flip pen, Viereck traces the origins of the feverish ideas of present-day Germany to the Romanticism of the last century and to even remoter sources of German character...
...reversed center has certain advantages: 1) the center can flip accurately to any of four backs; 2) for this reason, ballcarriers can get into the open faster; 3) guards do not have to be pulled out of the line to block inasmuch as the center can easily go back to do so. Baffling its foes with Solem's Y, Syracuse has won four out of five games this season. Referees have tried but failed to find anything in the rule book that can force Solem to turn his center around...