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...successful season on ten strong men whom he describes as "a hard-working, faithful squad," Mikkola has arranged an initial four-meet listing which includes the traditional M. I. T., Dartmouth, and Tufts contests. In the first of these, the Crimson A squad will run the 3.7 mile handicap course against the best Tech-men on October...
...team is away Worcester Polytech may send distance men down for a Charles River meeting with the Crimson B team, and it is possible that the second string Mikkola-men will also race on the 13th of November, when the post-exam schedule brings Tufts over to the Handicap Course...
There was irony in the one thing on which the Government and A. P. agreed: that A. P. was certainly the best news service in the business (although the Government saw this as a handicap to newspapers without A. P. service). A. P., though flattered, was not stupid; its lawyers played down this superiority, heartily extolled the merits of its smaller rival, United Press. Any paper with U. P. service could get along nicely, cooed...
...long as overoptimism slackened the U.S. war effort, the initiative could be a handicap...
...went. In spite of such a handicap, the story pieced together some thing like this...