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Approximately 160 Freshmen came out for this year's inter-hall softball games, the first of their kind in Yardling history. Competition was keen in both leagues, especially in League I, which played off a three-team tie for first place. For winning, Matthews will receive the championship plaque for Freshman soft-ball to be awarded by Phillips Brooks House...
...last decade, many a parent with reduced income has asked a school to reduce its published rates. So keen is the competition among schools for students, to keep enrollments up to par, that many headmasters oblige-sometimes by granting "scholarships" which are actually no more than cut-rate prices. Rudolf Neuberger's system makes it possible for headmasters to offer an easy-payment plan without cutting tuition fees...
Senatorial cynics dryly agreed last week that the world was safe, because New Hampshire's Charles William Tobey had it on his shoulders again. Senator Tobey, a somewhat skinny Atlas, is a rumpled, furious man with a vivid imagination and a hound-keen nose for trouble-a word indissolubly connected in Mr. Tobey's mind with Franklin Roosevelt...
...ahead with his plant program depends on 1) whether the Government will help his financing with a big chunk of RFC cash, 2) whether the Government will give him priorities on the steel he needs to build his plants. With the Army, the President and several busy New Dealers keen for more West Coast steel, he figures he has at least an even chance for both. If not, he hopes that the possibility of new competition will help convince established steelmakers of the need for expansion...
...gripping as a war in Europe. Though the dialogue sometimes smacks of the Hemingway-Saroyan tradition, Mailer, who incidentally hies from New Jersey, has completely avoided the artificialities and the polished sophistications characteristic of so many Advocate short stories and replaced them with conviction, a strongly developed plot, and keen representation of detail...