Word: macdonald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...haunting Novelist du Maurier. Six years after she was charged with lifting the plot from a Brazilian novelist (who later dropped the suit), Writer du Maurier had to defend herself against the same charge by a U.S. writer. In a Manhattan court, the son of the late Edwina Levin MacDonald (who died after she brought suit) charged that Rebecca was a steal from 1) his mother's novel, Blind Windows, 2) her short story, I Planned to Murder My Husband...
Coach James MacDonald glanced at the record of Worcester Tech yesterday afternoon, smiled like the Cheshire cat and said he figured his soccer team might win today. He guessed that since the Techmen had lost all their games this fall, his team might not find them too troublesome even on Worcester's bandbox home field...
...M.I.T. has a team of brilliant players," Coach MacDonald said yesterday, "but they generally play like eleven individuals and spend most of their time trying to score one-man goals. This usually leads to defeats." MacDonald figures he has a good team this year, and also stands by the traditional soccer theory that a good team will beat eleven individual stars...
...result of Monday's practice Coach MacDonald plans to make a major change in his lineup for the Tech game. Against a team from the graduate school Hans Estin scored six goals from the center forward position, and accordingly Mac has made him the regular finisher while shifting Phil Potter to inside...
Local bookies had seen the Crimson as slight favorites despite the loss of key men Chief Boston, Torby MacDonald, and Vernon Struck--quarterback, halfback, and fullback respectively. The team had had a good season, winning the opening game 54 to 0 from invading Springfield and losing only once prior to the West Point contest by an unexpectedly lopsided score to Dartmouth in what some analysts termed a startling upset...