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...Gloom. The evidence of national pessimism, a trait entirely alien to the U.S., is exceptionally well documented. It is a gloom that is not due to fear that the Allies will lose the war-72.5% expect them to win it (only 7.0% actually expect Hitler to win). But after the war 69.9% expect that people will have to work harder, 60.5% that pay will be lower, 43.2% that prices will be higher, 60.7% that there will be a great deal of unemployment...
...This gloom reflects the change in public attitude on a subject of perennial American optimism: the hope of each generation that its children will have better opportunities of success than it enjoyed. Only 37.3% of the people think that their sons' opportunities will be better than their own (22 months ago 59.9% thought so). Today, of all classes in the nation, only Negroes still have high hopes for their offspring...
...talk that gave no promise of their ability to do the job. In their session at Columbia University they had poured out floods of high-minded eloquence until some of them protested, in voluminous orations, against the flood of talk. In an atmosphere of futility that sometimes deepened to gloom, with no crowds in the galleries to listen, with few signs that the U.S. imagination had been fired by their plans, the delegates prepared to go back to their countries-those who still had countries to go back...
Hank Mazur, who jackrabbited 40 yards to tie up last year's encounter between the two teams at 6 to 6, is a very dangerous man. According to this week's tidings of gloom, Mr. Mazur does everything but pump up the ball when it is snapped back to him. Army operates in the old Dartmouth style of a single wingback, and in formation right this places Mazur at the tailback spot. Here he is suited to carry on the running pass plays with which Bill Hutchinson of Dartmouth under Blaik's tutelage used to confound the Crimson secondary...
...dark, on the Charles River last night that Tom Bolles didn't know whom he had rowing on the last eight which pulled away from the Newell float and headed into the downstream gloom...