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...born loser? Not if he becomes a salesman for Pennsylvania Life Insurance Co., whose president cites this as the résumé of an ideal prospective employee. Penn Life offers such men an income that fairly often exceeds $20,000 and a smothering of somewhat unusual fringe benefits. According to President Stanley Beyer, 36: "We become the teacher who loved him, the mother-in-law who thinks he is great, the coach who gave him nine letters, the boss who wants to make him president...
Everyone wanted a piece of the Crimson football team one year ago. But yesterday you couldn't give it away. No one is interested in a loser, unless he loses in style, as the Mets used to. Harvard has been losing regularly, and now no one really cares any more. Harvard does not lose very colorfully...
...ample cause to continue his fight. Were he to withdraw the nomination, he reasons, the act would lend credence to charges that Haynsworth was less than candid about his financial dealings. Nixon also stands to gain political points in the South; Southerners, who appreciate the style of the gallant loser, will credit the President for his valiant fight on behalf of their man. Nixon's refusal to quit is also aimed at muting criticism that he has been a vacillating leader...
...there is clearly quite a bit at stake this afternoon, and the loser, if it is Harvard, can write off any hopes of a second-place finish. If the loser is Princeton. the best the Tigers can hope for might be a tie for the runner-up position...
...when Harvard and Pennsylvania meet at Franklin Field today, the stakes are all too clear. The loser will leave the field with three defeats in Ivy play, and with Dartmouth. Yale and Princeton still unbeaten, three defeats could be enough to doom the loser to the bottom half of the League...