Word: hadn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lead, calmly took out its regulars and began filling in with subs. Even the subs were hot shots. Before the game ended, nearly everybody on the Billikens' bench got a chance to play, and Holy Cross went down with a crash, 61 to 46. St. Louis U., which hadn't had an athletic team of any kind to cheer about since 1906,* had quietly developed one of the best college basketball teams...
...rest assured that nobody has the inside track on it right now," said college publicity director Arthur Sampson at 3:45 o'clock this afternoon. "Up till this morning Bingham hadn't even thought about it, and he won't be back from New York for 10 days anyway," Sampson continued...
...John Taber's ax-work, boosting interim aid to $570 million, occupation expenses to the original $490 million. When the bill went to conference, the Senate committeemen were adamant on providing something for China. Said one House conferee: "They just sat and looked and waited, and if we hadn't agreed to the China money, we wouldn't have had any Christmas." The weary wrangling ended in the usual compromise: $522 million for France, Italy and Austria, a token $18 million for China, $340 million for the Army. Both Houses approved...
...returned home after two years in the U.S. to find Russia overwhelmingly more attractive. But the pontiffs weren't satisfied. Simonov's Smoke of the Fatherland, just out, was written off as "immature and unsound." The surprising reason: the Propaganda Committee of the Communist Patty said he hadn't proved his thesis...
Stranded Soprano. Revelers in the Met's Sherry bar hadn't missed much in Yugoslav Soprano Daniza Ilitsch's opening-night performance. Greek Soprano Elen Dosia's bow in Tosca was no better. But the surprise debut of Cloe Elmo, a first-rate Italian mezzo-soprano, was a different story...