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Despite the knockdown, drag out defeat at the hands of the Terriers Wednesday night, the whole team is in good physical condition. Whether Coach Fesler has de-Columbia offense will be seen tonight as the Crimson seeks revenge for their previous defeat on February...
Harvard really looked like a good cage outfit, able to give and take with the best of them in a knockdown battle. The spirit and will to win on this year's squad is amazing. "Regardless of the outcome," says Wes Fesler, "we won't be outfought by any one." An overflow crowd jammed into the Athletic Building Wednesday night, probably to get a look at Gus Broberg, but no one man dominated that game. Two high-class teams put on an entertaining show, and there will be more of the same thing, served up on the third floor...
...Hear from and (barring miracles) vote more money to the Dies Committee, whose Red-finding Chairman Martin Dies last week was in a knockdown fight with minority committeemen. Issue: whether to include Franklin Roosevelt in the committee's wondrous list of Communist tools...
Tony Galento had won the goriest knockdown & drag-out since the days of the last-century bully boys...
Prime scandal of the 1938 primary season was-on the basis of excited statements last fortnight by the Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee (TIME, Aug. 8)-the knockdown, drag-out fight in Tennessee between the team of Senator George L. Berry & Governor Gordon Browning and the team of Senator Kenneth D. McKellar & Boss Ed Crump of Memphis. Coercion of WPAsters, ballot-box stuffing, martial law, shootings, sluggings, kidnappings and general mayhem were anticipated when Chairman Sheppard of the Committee rushed extra agents into Tennessee and announced that whoever won this Senate race would probably have his seat challenged on the floor...