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Raison d'etre of the most hectic resurrection of collegiate tradition, folderol, and general social fireworks Cambridge has seen since the days of the John Held cartoon, the sixty-third Harvard-Yale football game gets under way at the Stadium today at 1:45 o'clock. The Elis are rated a strong favorite to defeat the Crimson and annex the Big Three title...
Washington tried hard to play down the first U.S. visit of British Field Marshal Viscount Bernard Law Montgomery, Chief of the Imperial General Staff. Just a friendly call, said Harry Truman. Uneasy Monty, whirled through a hectic tour last week of U.S. military posts, donned his chattiest air of idle curiosity. But the yen to talk turkey about U.S.-British strategy was as plain as the eight rows of ribbons on Monty's chest...
...London last week tired businessmen in nightclubs were once more coming into their own. Gone were the dashing, uniformed bucks with money to burn, the outrageous prices and the pseudo-Cuban bands which jangled jungle rhythms during the hectic war years. Back were the soft-sweet tunes of the '30s, the black ties, the long evening gowns. Champagne, which had fallen from favor when its price rocketed to nearly ?9, was on hand again at a Government-controlled ?3 a bottle...
...money is to be spent in underwriting seamen's pay (still low according to American standards) and company profits. And every time jolting Joe Curran and Harry Lundeberg feel itchy and sailors on the nation's waterfronts tumble off the ships, they cast a longing thought back over the hectic thirties. For then the villian was rich, boated and all capitalist, and not wearing red, white and blue suspenders...
...When ceilings came off, U.S. hide prices raced to catch up with world prices, went as high as 27? before the old ceilings were clamped on again 25 days later. Despite OPA's interim warning to buyers, 900,000 hides were bought in the hectic free market...