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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Princeton's pass defense was not able to match its line and opened up enough to let the Rutgers ace passer, La Prairie, complete 12 of his 22 passes for 210 yards. Many of these passes were completed, however, during the second half, when Caldwell had his third string out on the field...
Only by a free competition, unhampered by government controls or private cartels, does the commission think the job can be done. Said the report: "Competition is not a one-sided concept. Our insistence on the opportunity to compete with others carries with it an obligation to let others freely compete with...
...Notebook would be as breezy as, say, the Autobiography of Anthony Trollope (in which the old fox hunter posthumously appalled his huge public by admitting with a gay cackle that money had always been his muse). But where other note-makers have nailed their colors to the mast and let their hair down to the last soiled lovelock, urbane Maugham has preferred to soak his colors in bleach and pin his hair in a tight bun. His Notebook (the whittlings-down of "fifteen stoutish volumes") contains mostly workaday jottings from 1892 (when he had just started to write...
...Let's See MacArthur. Hardest hit by Kenney's free-swinging, almost casual criticism is General Richard K. Sutherland, Arthur's wartime chief of staff (since retired). Admitting that Sutherland was "smart," Kenney also says that "an unfortunate bit of arrogance, combined with his egotism, had made him almost universally disliked . . . Sutherland was inclined to overemphasize his smattering of knowledge of aviation." The showdown came during the very first week, when Sutherland tried to write the orders for Kenney's first big show. Writes Kenney: "I told him that I was running the Air Force because...
Spurred by righteous clubwomen, the town marshal took Janie away from her foster parents and brought her to the generous Smiths, who let her share Lillian's room, clothes and toys. But one day, after a phone call from an orphanage, Lillian was told Janie would have to leave...