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...least of his personal troubles is financial. Contrary to tradition, and to legend, Douglas is not a rich man. His grandfather's fortune has already been dispersed; his father's is locked up in Canada, where Rawhide Jim retired in an anti-New Deal huff in 1939. With only $53,570 a year in pay and allowances to run the London Embassy, Lew is forced to dig deep into his own savings...
Coach Mikkola was blunt last night. "With the strength we have, it is very possible that we might be last." Naturally, the Varsity will huff and puff its hardest over the five-mile Nassau course, but considering the admittedly superior field. Coach Mikkola's statement is not too pessimistic...
...Evanston, ΙΙΙ., Michigan, the nation's top rated team, with hardly a huff or puff, blew Northwestern down, 49-21. ¶At South Bend, Notre Dame, with Star Johnny Lujack under wraps for most of the game, trounced Nebraska, 31-0. Illinois met Minnesota at Champaign, ΙΙΙ., in the week's only big game between unbeaten teams, and Minnesota lost, 40-13. The South's three best unbeaten teams, Texas, Southern Methodist and Georgia Tech, had no trouble keeping their escutcheons unsmudged...
...strictly coincidental in terms of organized labor's unity in the coming countrywide elections. On the surface the unions may appear a long way apart. CIO's president calls for a meeting "to formulate an immediate joint program" and the AFL hierarchy declines in a huff. But under the surface of intra-labor jockeying the plain fact persists that both CIO and AFL have common political aims in the repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act and the defeat of its Congressional supporters...
...Liverpool, England's best hope of winning the British Open golf championship died when haughty Henry Cotton took a second-round 78 and stormed off the green in a huff. One London paper consoled its readers: "For a welcome change, the Americans are not in the van." In fact, most topflight U.S. pros, including Defending Champion Sam Snead, did not even show up.* The winner: jaunty little Ulsterite Fred Daly of Belfast, who grinned and said: "It's lucky to be Irish...