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...Coach Bill Barclay embarked on a sleeper last night, and unless the Crimson quintet has been in hibernation since December, the chances are slim that it will awake in time to gain its first victory in the past fourteen starts...
...Fourteen Harvard professor received recognition for their war services in a joint Army-Navy ceremony yesterday at New Lecture Hall. They were among the 86 Greater Boston men who were honored with the Certificate of Merit from the Defense Department. Varied fields of work, ranging from medical research to economics were represented among the men who received the honors...
Sixteen students who oppose the draft and other evidences of "militarist domination" met in Winthrop Junior Common Room to plan the new organization. Fourteen of the students are believers in conscientious objection...
...South demonstrated last week that its hooligans were politically impartial. Three days after Henry Wallace had withdrawn northward in a shower of garbage, Republicans staged a rally in industrial Kingsport, a G.O.P. stronghold in mountainous eastern Tennessee. Fourteen thousand people crowded into a parking lot and overflowed into the street. They were there to hear ex-National Chairman Carroll Reece, candidate for U.S. Senator, and Fiddler Roy Acuff, nominee for governor...
Rags to Riches. In the National League, the race was just as tight, the scrambling just as fierce. Back in July, the first-place Boston Braves had a comfortable six-game margin. The embarrassed Brooklyn Dodgers, last year's champions, grumbled in last place. Fourteen days later the Dodgers, already on the way back, switched from loud Manager Leo Durocher to patient Burt Shotton, and kept going. Last week, in an Ebbets Field doubleheader that had some of the tenseness and all the excitement of a World Series, the rags-to-riches Bums beat the Braves in the opener...