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With two victories and a tie behind it, the Mill Street aggregation goes into the fray as a 11/2 point favorite according to local bookmakers. Radcliffe has also won two games, but has lost another...
Meanwhile Vito Marcantonio had been hopping about on the fringes of the fray, on one occasion with his good friend, Henry Wallace. He cried that the assessed valuation of rich men's buildings was being reduced, that recipients of city welfare were about to be starved, that vested interests would release torrents of nameless horrors if he were not elected. He also complained that someone had thrown old cantaloupes at him from a building...
...tube of toothpaste he had modeled for Pepsodent, tore off the wrapper he had designed for Lux soap. Even the expensively tailored grey suit he put on was his own snugly fitting creation. Its special feature: inch-and-a-half cuffs on the sleeves, which could be replaced when frayed (a designer's fray quickly...
...boys from Mill Street will enter the fray after only two days' practice on the 'Cliffe quad under the aegis of an anonymous Radcliffe field hockey star. Pine Manor, Wheaton, Sargent, and Mt. Holyoke have all accepted challanges from the unhappy locals. No invasion of the Annex is as yet scheduled, but negotiations for the tilt are being plotted...
...coast's Big Game--Stamford vs. California. These rivals from different sides of San Francisco Bay have been slugging it out with an intensity matched only by the Harvard-Yale tradition. But the Eastern rivalry is merely a contest between teams; out West, the whole school joins in the fray...