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After a faltering start, the Jayvee aggregation gathered momentum as Bill Hamlen bulled his way through a host of Newtonians, kicking and blasting the puck into the net to tie the first stanza score...
Critics Olin Downes and Virgil Thomson, British novelist E. M. Forster, and a host of widely-known composors and musicians will plunge into a three-day examination of the principles of music criticism at a large-scale symposium in Cambridge on May 1, 2, and 3, the Department of Music announced recently...
Ponn has a host of veterans from pre-war years, including Chink Crossin, who in 1944 won some people's nomination for All American. The Quakers also have whipped Yale's struggling forces, which seems to have little besides center Tony Lavelli to offer. Princeton has two standout performers back in George Lawry, who led the league in field goals in 1942-43, and Butch Van Breda Kolff. They handed a twenty-point defeat to Rutgers, which in turn Handed Columbia a three-point beating. The Tigers also absorbed a horrendous drubbing at the hands of Seton Hall...
...human race is riddled with worms. They coil and squirm and chew through most of the world's population. When the average man dies, a host of worms dies with him. But wormkind goes wriggling on, to infest his children, reduce their vitality, cause disfiguring sores or swellings, and lower their resistance...
Photogenic Faye Emerson Roosevelt and her husband (the late President's scatter-quote son) last week paid Joseph Stalin a birthday (his 67th) visit in the Kremlin. Faye and Elliott reported that their host, who had been ailing at Sochi in the Caucasus, looked very well, as indeed he did in a highly retouched photograph (see cut) issued by Sovfoto, the official Soviet photo service. If Stalin imparted any immortal confidences and earth-shaking forecasts, Elliott hasn't revealed them...