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...factor is the almost definite shift in the trial site to Princeton's Lake Carnegic, the best course in the East. Bolles and every other coach have spent most of their spare time this spring trying to convince the Olympic committee that the original site on the turbulent and muck-filled Schuylkill River was not the place for such a momentous event...
...critics gasped, too. "This film," said the Observer, "has all the morals of an alley cat and the sweetness of a sewer." Said the Sunday Pictorial: "A piece of nauseating muck." Wrote Steven Watts in the Sunday Express: "The worst film I have ever seen." From the august Manchester Guardian came utter damnation: "Thoroughly un-British...
...Evans, the pleasure and the art of photography are in the seeing, not the doing. He has explored the face of the U.S. for Government projects, for FORTUNE, and to illustrate books (Let Us Now Praise Famous Men), photographing its muck and loveliness, miseries and grandeur, all with the same puritanical detachment. His pictures have no tricks in them, only an intensity of understatement which makes him one of the top half-dozen photographers alive. Says he: "After 20-odd years of work I still have great difficulty maintaining enough calm to operate well, at moments when some sort...
...Barricades. But Dick Dilworth came out slugging. He hired investigators to rake into the Republican muck, rounded up a bevy of girls to wear "Dilworth for Mayor" streamers across their bosoms, and rented two sound trucks. He scheduled four or five street-corner meetings a night, hoping to cover each of the city's 52 wards at least twice...
...thousand rain-drenched spectators stood in the muck and mire to watch this latter encounter, as they saw quarterback Jim Kenary, this fall a potential cog in the Varsity machine, break loose for scoring runs of 65 and 85 yards...