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...Ground Gainer. Senator Magnuson has already made 300 speeches in 3½ months, and he takes off across the state this week in a campaign bus all rigged with amplifiers, microphones, record turntable, stacks of literature, and a galley to provide coffee and doughnuts for the voters. Maggie sums it all up this way: "This campaign is basic. Have I done a good job for the state? And if not, can anyone do better?" To this, Art Langlie, the Eisenhower Republican replies: "The people are entitled to make a decision and determine whether they want the facts honestly...
...Some find it interesting to speculate as to which nations gained and which lost from this development. I would say that if the 'spirit of Geneva' is to be permanent, then all the world must be the gainer...
Each day 1,309,377 Americans receive hospital treatment, 584,455 in mental hospitals (the load was 352,279 twenty years ago). Among major diseases, the biggest gainer is polio (57,879 cases v. 1947's low 10,827); the biggest loser is syphilis (165.853 cases v. 1946's peak...
...backfield leads the league in almost every offensive department. Halfback Archie Williams is the top ground gainer and halfback Pete Kohut is leading the league in total yardage. Ev Pearson has scored a total of 44 points in seven games to top the league. This offense looms formidable against the Crimson defense--the best in the league--but weakened by the questionable status of guard Bill Meigs, who broke his nose against Princeton last week...
...California looked in September like a contender for the Pacific Coast championship; it seemed a cinch for a bid to the Rose Bowl. With the superb passing of All-America Candidate Paul Larson, last season's leading ground gainer, how could they lose? Then Oklahoma's Max Boydston, a big end who runs like a fullback, taught them how in their first game. After that, Ohio State, Oregon and U.S.C. drove the lesson home. Larson alone was not enough. Last week California lost another to U.C.L.A., 27-6. ¶ Illinois was an odds-on favorite...