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...other offices which his sponsor, the Chicago Tribune, had sought for him, had squeaked through to victory in 1940 while the electorate's eyes were focused on the more important Roosevelt-Willkie campaign. In 17½ months in the Senate his only achievement had been membership on the hapless isolationist committee which had tried to smear the movie industry as "warmongers...
Briefly, the story has to do with a big-time literary know-it-all's attempts to bring the mountain to Mohammed while he undergoes a forced period of convalescence at the home of a hapless Ohio family to whose home he had gone for dinner. Between conducting benefits for delinquents, harnessing penguins from Admiral Byrd, and attempting to run the affairs of his unwilling host, our hero has a busy time for himself and all concerned, and furnishes an hilarious hour and a half for his audience...
...rained baskets last night in the Indoor Athletics Building as Coach Earl Brown's Varsity basketeers rolled up 59 points at will against a hapless Pennsylvania squad which totaled 33. In a preliminary game, the Yardlings sucsumbed to Dean Academy in a thriller...
Leverett's pucksters put the hapless Kirkland team to complete rout, 12-0, in a game marked by the ineffectual efforts of the Deacon defense to cope with the superior Bunny forward line. The league-leading Winthrop six met a difficult test against Dudley's commuters, but Butcher's two goals led the Puritans to another triumph...
...sticking around Cambridge for the summer is unpleasant to undergraduates in general, it's even less enjoyable to the hapless student from Dallas or San Francisco, who finds himself away from home for not nine, but twelve full months a year. And when he's likely to be toting a rifle for Uncle Sam at any time, those extra months at home mean a lot. An obvious answer to this problem lies in allowing him to receive at least partial credit for work done at an approved college near his home. But the University's present ruling which denies credit...