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Furthermore, Zitrides had lost eight of 11 backfield lettermen. He still had reliable veterans at quarterback (Walt Pastuzak) and fullback (Leon Beaulieu), but the halfback crop was so lean that Zitrides had to move end Bob MacConnell into the backfield. MacConnell has looked fairly good so far at right halfback. He does most of Brown's punting, and has averaged 38.7 yards a try, good enough to place him fifth in the Eastern Football Association...
...other congressional races: ¶ Harlem's pro-Communist Vito Marcantonio was beaten at last-after seven terms-by lean, tough 51-year-old James G. Donovan, candidate of an unprecedented Democrat-Republican-Liberal coalition...
Last week, residents of Lowell House and Dunster House were surprised to notice cats stalking about the dining halls at dinner time. One was a black tabby cat with a white spot on its chest, which seemed lean at the beginning of the week, grew sleek and plump towards the weekend, and was seen no more thereafter...
After 56 years, the greater part of Mrs. Warren is utter deadwood-obsolete in method, lean on wit, smacking of 19th-century melodrama. In 1950, it is much more of a problem play for directors than for theatergoers. In general, the current production is weak. But the two crucial scenes between Mrs. Warren and her daughter ring out with a forthright vigor and vibrancy; and Mrs. Warren (Estelle Winwood) is played with decided style, her daughter (Louisa Horton) with fine sobriety. Twice Mrs. Warren's Profession booms like a great-bellied old clock, even if it otherwise runs painfully...
Somewhere in the next years-when Coolidge and Hoover gave him high position-the mantle of elder statesman began to settle imperceptibly around Henry Stimson's lean shoulders. He shared and symbolized the nation's ideals and hopes ("the only deadly sin I know is cynicism," he once wrote). Always above petty intrigues, he was by then broader than politics, and wiser than the current clich...