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Exceptions do seep through every once in a while, though. This week Dartmouth football publicity went overboard for a pair of ends, Mo Monahan and George Rusch, who, if you want to believe the written word, should both be out earning a living for their poor mothers with the Chicago Bears, instead of hanging around Hanover. Superlatives drip from a page and a half of purple prose, but before the final period was inscribed on the release, the more cautious of the writers had his covering sentence. "No matter how superior Holy Cross proves to be against a Dartmouth team...
...Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King was going to meet opposition after all. Dr. Richard Monahan, 64, a lean, red-haired man with an un-Canadian impulse to throw away $1,000, announced that he would run in the Glengarry, Ont. by-election called for Aug. 6 to give Mr. King a seat in Parliament...
Opposition parties had stood aside to let Mr. King slide comfortably into the Glengarry seat after his defeat in Prince Albert, Sask., in the June 11 general election. To Dr. Monahan, no more a resident of Glengarry than the Prime Minister, this procedure seemed too cut & dried. Said he: "If he's not good enough for Prince Albert, he's not good enough for old Glengarry...
Like everyone else, Dr. Monahan thought that he had no chance to win. Said he: "I think the French Canadians (about half the 15,000 population) will lose me the election. . . ." He planned to spend $1,000 in an effort "to set the heather blazing again across old Glengarry...
Best end on the Indian squad is Senior Joe Crowley, who saw 51 minutes of action against the Harlowmen last fall. Typical of the Green line, he is better on offense than on defense, blocks well, is a fair pass receiver. His partner on the end squad, John Monahan, is a Sophomore who can be called upon to punt if the going gets tough. Long and rangy, Monahan is a good pass receiver, but he hasn't had too much experience...