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With the opening Andover Academy game less than a week away, it is nevertheless still too early to predict a complete starting lineup or make any guesses as to the outcome of the Yardlings' season. Coach Lamar keeps pretty mum about his choices for most of the squad spots and in Freshman football anything can happen in the course of a season. But a look at the '51 roster and the spirited practices held so far indicate that Coach Lamar will have no dearth of talent in this group of gridders playing together for the first time...

Author: By Rafael M. Steinberg, | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/7/1947 | See Source »

...Something Wrong." As long as he could, School Superintendent Alexander J. Stoddard kept mum. The issue was a "family matter," he insisted, and not one for public debate. To his surprise, parents of public-school pupils also began to write letters to newspapers. In a special poll, the Bulletin found that a thumping majority of them wanted to abolish the mass-promotion system. Said the 1,000 members of the Big Four Fathers' Association: "We've felt for a long time there was something wrong with the school system. Now, someone has put his finger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Mass v. Merit | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

Where did the girls come in? All the accused, except the girls, kept mum. Elliott had been through newspaper probes before. He said nothing. But Secretary Krug, a Cabinet member now, had to say something. He admitted that he had attended a few of Meyer's parties. But he denied having attended at least three for which Meyer had him listed on his expense sheet. Meyer, said Krug wrathfully, was padding the account at his expense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Check, Please! | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

...American Iron and Steel Institute estimated that a price rise of $6 to $7 a ton in steel would mean a direct increase of $10.50 to $12.25 in the cost of producing the average automobile. At week's end, automakers and other hard-goods manufacturers were still mum on any price rises. But in most of these lines, competition alone was not great enough to force them to hold the line. The only encouraging sign came from Armco's fabricating subsidiary, Sheffield Steel Corp. (bolts, wire, nails, etc.). Despite parent Armco's action, Sheffield, which makes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ECONOMY: Short Wait | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

Hailstones. The scientists, for the most part, kept mum. Some fumbled around with the idea of solar reflections, meteor crystals, ice crystals, hailstones. No astronomer had seen anything unusual. No weather plane or radar screen had picked up any astral bodies. Air Forces spokesmen denied that they had experimental planes resembling the saucers seen in the Northwest or anywhere else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PEOPLE: The Somethings | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

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