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James A. Cronin, son of the noted Jim, exclaimed "how they are drinking! The boys bolt in, grab a large quantity of beer, bolt it, and fly back to their books. They don't stay long, but drink fast and plenty...
After shouts of "grab that man" and "stop them" arose, Harper and Thalhofer decided that they were not going to let possible dividends slip away so easily...
...news rarely makes the front pages-unless it is such musicomedy stuff as the "Hollywood hearings." In general, the U.S. is covered by such grab-bag gossips as Don Iddon (in the Mail) and C. V. R. Thompson (in the Express). Without such serious correspondents as Sir Willmott Lewis of the Times and Alistair Cooke, the Manchester Guardian's man at U.N., and the shrewd jotters of the "American Survey" in Geoffrey Crowther's Economist, an American in London would feel hopelessly cut off from home...
...there was more than romance on Michael's mind. From the day of his arrival in London he had been holding high level talks about his job in Bucharest. The Rumanian Communists' power grab was complete, and Michael, king in a Communist-dominated country, had become a royal cipher. The stunned immobility with which Rumanians watched their beloved National Peasant Party Leader Juliu Maniu be crushed under Communist Matriarch Ana Pauker's steamroller told Michael he had not long to reign-even as Pauker's virtual prisoner...
Nobody knows which way the football is going to bounce, especially on an afternoon like today. Last year's game might have been different if Levi Jackson's one-handed grab of a wind-blown punt had failed, or if his now famous forward fumble had not hopped 11 yards into the grasping hands of Jack Roderick to keep Yale's scoring drive alive...