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...three seasons as head football coach at Cornell, George (Lefty) James has compiled a distinguished record of 20 victories and seven losses. Two of the wins have been lop-sided triumphs over Harvard elevens and few in the crowd which will attend this afternoon's contest between the Big Red and Crimson at the stadium expect that James' dominance over local teams will come to a sudden halt...
...started to trim the small (19 men) editorial staff, and cut the Herald's eight-page editions to six and sometimes four pages. Month ago, Editor Parsons got a cable from Mrs. Reid to come home for a conference. There he learned that Weare had made another recommendation: lop off the editor's job-and Parsons' $19,500 salary-and combine the editor's functions with the general manager's. Last week Editor Parsons resigned, pocketed a $10,000 consolation prize and began to look around for another job. Walter Kerr, Herald Tribune foreign editor...
...read with interest your editorial (May 22) opposing construction of a new Varsity Club. In your fairness to the proposal, you cited only two advantages: "it would re-instituted the training table . . . and it would lop three blocks off the long walk back from Soldiers Field...
There would be some use for a new Club. It would re-instituted the training table (which is likely to be re-instituted anyway), and it would lop three blocks off the long walk back from Soldiers Field. According to Varsity Club alumni, it would bring the College's athletic facilities up to "normal...
...first fifteen lost to Princeton in Bermuda by a lop-sided 13 to 0 score, but since its return from Bermuda it has been bolstered by the addition of seven players who could not make the trip. With this improved team, the ruggers have gained three straight victories...