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Princeton has long been mathematically eliminated from a chance at the top position. The tigers, led by Captain Blair Terrey, come to Cambridge free of pressure, intent on avenging their earlier, hard-fought 6 to 4 loss to the varsity. If goalie Terrey is hot, as he usually is, the Crimson will need every advantage of a home risk to pull off a second...
Meauwhile, left wing Johnny Hamlen paced the freshman hockey team to a 4 to 1 victory over St. Paul's School in a rough, hard-fought contest at Concord...
Crimson number one man Haddon Tomes led the team to victory with a hard-fought win over his Navy counterpart Tom Lynch by scores of 18-13, 14-18, 18-15, 15-1. Number two man Larry Brownell won in a clean sweep from Navy's Doug Egan by an 18-14, 15-12, 15-3 count...
Advance: Refugees. Utah's Republican Senator Arthur Watkins, sponsor of the Administration bill to admit 240,000 refugees from NATO and Iron Curtain countries, asked the President to lend a hand in the hard-fought battle to get the bill reported out against the stubborn opposition of Nevada's Pat McCarran and Idaho's Herman Welker. Ike invited Watkins and McCarran to the White House, flatly turned down McCarran's compromise proposal to admit 124,000 refugees. Bolstered, Watkins went back to Capitol Hill and got a Judiciary Committee majority (not including McCarran) to agree...
...heart attack; in Scituate, Mass. Son of an Irish immigrant carpenter, he grew up in Boston's drab Mission Hill district, worked his way through high school, studied law at night. After two years in the state legislature, handsome Democrat Tobin twice upset Boss Jim Curley in hard-fought mayoralty campaigns, resigned to win the governorship by 150,000 votes, lost it to Back Bay Republican Robert F. Bradford two years later. Appointed Labor Secretary by Truman before the 1948 election. Fair Dealer Tobin backed union demands in last year's steel dispute, urged revision of the Taft...