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...ball under his arm, he faked a plunge toward the goal line. At the last moment, just as the converging Bruin linemen had him hemmed in, Sears lobbed a floater to Halfback Carmichael for the winning touchdown. Final score, after the teams had battled around midfield in foggy, floodlit gloom through the last quarter: Sears & Co. 14, U.C.L.A...
...second night of competition on the floodlit field, Mathias almost came a cropper in one of his specialties, the 110-meter hurdles. Winging off to a sprint start, Mathias knocked over three of the ten barriers, but still managed to beat his best previous decathlon time, 0:14.7, by a tenth of a second. He threw the discus nearly 158 ft., pole-vaulted 12 ft. 3 3/4 in. (9 inches under his best mark), made a prodigious javelin throw of nearly 194 ft., and wound up his two nights' work with a 4:55.3 clocking...
...baby Brownies into Sacré-Coeur, climbed to the top of Notre Dame, brushed shoulders with Bohemia in cellar nightclubs on the Left Bank, gave free advice to street artists painting in Montmartre. They drove down the Loire valley searching out new restaurants and old châteaux (now floodlit at night for American eyes), and tried not to notice the scrawled Communist signs, "Americans, go home...
...proletarian polemic, was his last causal fling. While other Britons dug trenches in the parks and queued for gas masks, he turned to creating something that would "defend . . . small and beautiful things against ... the mass ugliness and beastliness of the herd." His labors resulted in a domed, floodlit hothouse, planned to resemble "a gigantic reproduction of one of Queen Mary's hats...
...chill of a gathering fog, porters loaded 97 pieces of baggage aboard the big-bellied BOAC Stratocruiser Canopus* at floodlit London Airport. Just before midnight, as hundreds of well-wishers cheered, Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh got aboard; it was the first overseas flight for an heir to the British throne. At 12:31 a.m., the Canopus took off into the mist. Back on the tarmac, Queen Elizabeth blew a last kiss, said to a companion: "I'm full of envy...