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...unquestionably a western. When Spencer Tracy steps off the streamliner into the Arizona hamlet, it is the first time the train has stopped there in for years. Vast desert countryside, in CinemaScope, presents an appropriately morbid and untrammeled background for Black Rock, which contains the usual lawless gang and hapless sheriff. Conspicuously absent, however, is the stereotyped melodrama which might have brought Bad Day at Black Rock down to the level of typical cowboy films...

Author: By Ralph A. Austen, | Title: Bad Day at Black Rock | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

...hapless Lions have again lost to every swimming organization in the League, which means the Hal Ulen and his varsity will only be interested in crimson times as compared with those that will be complied in Princeton, where Yale should be crushing the Tigers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Columbia Swimmers Face Crimson Today | 3/5/1955 | See Source »

...concerns Ivy championships or Colorado invitations, tonight's varsity hockey game with Yale at New Haven Arena will prove absolutely nothing. At best, the hapless Elis can salvage a fourth-place in the Ivy League...

Author: By Charles Steedman, | Title: Varsity Sextet Ends Regular Season on Yale Rink Today | 3/5/1955 | See Source »

Precision passing and shooting gave the Yardling hockey team a 12 to 5 victory over the hapless Brown freshmen last night at the Lynn Arena. The win was the 17th straight for the Yardlings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Undefeated '58 Sextet Crushes Brown, 12-5 | 2/23/1955 | See Source »

...Yardling hockey team drubbed a hapless Princeton sextet, 14 to 1, at the Watson Rink Saturday to remain undefeated. The freshmen will seek their 17th straight victory tomorrow against Brown at 7 p.m. in the Lynn Arena...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '58 Sextet Crushes Princeton, 14-1; Basketball Team Defeats Andover | 2/21/1955 | See Source »

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