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...attempt for one Crimson score. In the fourth period, after Columbia's fifth touchdown, Clasby completed several consecutive passes. On the above play, however, the ball squirted high out of the tailback's arms, and was recovered by Lion BOB WALLACE (82)--giving the final gasp to Harvard's last scoring threat...

Author: By Hiller B. Zobel, | Title: Crimson Defense Attack Crumbled Before Columbia | 10/8/1951 | See Source »

...they didn't mean it for a minute. Once more we must turn to fact over fancy; 6 out of 10 Radcliffe girls, marry Harvard men. Perhaps the Harvard attitude was no more than a cry of protest; now that cry is no more than a gasp. Harvard has almost completely succumbed to the charms of Radcliffe...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: Radcliffe Survives Years of Sneers | 9/12/1951 | See Source »

...Harvey, 63, an aluminum fabricator in Los Angeles, plays his cards close to his chest. No outsiders have ever found out much about the production, profits or prospects of his family-owned Harvey Machine Co. Last week shrewd-dealing Leo Harvey won a pot that made competitors gasp. The pot was a $46 million Government loan designed to make Harvey the fourth biggest U.S. aluminum producer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALUMINUM: Move Over! | 9/10/1951 | See Source »

...Bowie] heard her gasp, a startled catch of the breath as his hand ran down her arched back with a sleeking motion, encountered the stunning soft abundance of her hips, and drew her hard against him. Mouth crushed to mouth. Perfumed, soft as velvet, hot as fire, her lips trembled under his kiss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Frontier Excalibur | 7/30/1951 | See Source »

...heaps one unbearable emotion on top of another. The bloody last scene (which happens to be the thirteenth) kills off the hero and heroine. M. Lenormand has reached the worst of his worst. There is nothing more to say. One last, unbearable emotion, and the play ends with a gasp...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: The Playgoer | 7/26/1951 | See Source »

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