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Even the strait-laced BBC has its wild & woolly moments. The woolliest: 6:45 every week night, when British youngsters gasp at the well-planned perils of Dick Barton, Special Agent, hero of BBC's only nonstop thriller.* Every night, just as death's door opens, time's up. "What will Dick do? Listen in tomorrow night...
...tractors, monthly allowances of $15 for from three months to a year, cash grants up to $575 for building a house and stable, credits for all land cleared and ploughed. In some parts of the province this policy has paid off, e.g., the Rimouski diocese of the Gaspé Peninsula, where 33 new parishes averaging 150 to 200 families have been established in the past 15 years. But no one realized better than the Church itself that to the young men of today the virtues of pioneering sounded bleak and harsh beside the siren voice of the cities...
...December cue. In a sense, that game was a capstone of the Years Between the Wars, of the World as it Used to Be. Before the war engulfed them both, the two schools played one more, as anti-climactic as the other had been a climax, the last gasp of a world that was already dying. Taht year an underdog Crimson eleven saw an upset victory over Yale slip from its fingers in the cold drizzling rain and gathering drakness of the Yale Bowl. That contest was four years and a whole world away from the game this afternoon...
Neither was a great surprise. In its 6½ years the Great Adless Experiment had cost Publisher Marshall Field III more than $4 million. Ingersoll's plaintive plea last June for 100,000 more readers had been generally regarded as a last-gasp try for profits on circulation alone. But circulation last week was just 170,755-only 5,000 more than when Ingersoll cried for help, and nowhere near enough...
...goes into the game when Yale gets the ball. While loyal Eli rooters gasp and clutch each other's coat sleeves, four or five plays are run off from the T-formation, and each time the ball is handed to someone else. Then Levicomesout again...