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Margarita, a seatback ace at Brown who gave Harlow numerous headaches while performing for the Bruins as an undergraduate, joined the Bears after his discharge from service in 1944, and last year was the third-leading ground gainer in the pro league. He gave up the play-for-pay profession to join the Varsity coaching staff this fall...
...well-rounded program suited to the abilities of the individual" has been eminently satisfactory. If the University can induce secondary schools to include more protein and less sugar in their curricular diet without hindering the trend to democracy in higher education, learning every where will be the gainer...
Wishful Laborites expected that the Tory giants would lose ground in such a free market. They underestimated Britons' ravenous appetite for more news. In the first days of the new deal, all the big papers got bigger, no matter what their politics. Biggest ground-gainer: the Mirror, which serves its Socialism with sex on the side. Overnight it added 600,000 customers, passed 3,000,000 circulation. But the Tory Express, which has the biggest daily circulation in the world, picked up another third of a million, seemed likely to hold a safe lead with its dizzy...
...Great Britain's controlled competition, Pan Am had made a brisk first down. It had cut its New York to London fares from $572 to $275. Then Britain had Pan Am penalized: its flights were cut from five a week to two. Pan Am tried a ground gainer: it offered to raise its fares to $375, as suggested by Britain. But Britain called time out, and appealed to the umpire...
...Biggest gainer in popularity, Michigan's Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg...