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...center, Holy Cross has 202-pound Jim Deffley, playing his third year as varsity pivotman, and highly regarded by Crusader followers for his vicious tackling. The left guard is Hank Beaulieu, 196 pounds of muscular energy. His running mate on the other side of the line, Jim Reilly, weighs 189 pounds...
...crowd-pullers were ex-champions. The biggest gallery followed cocky Frank Stranahan, 26, the muscular millionaire Ohio playboy who won the British Amateur championship this year. And Spectator Bobby Jones, the onetime nonpareil (he won the U.S. Amateur title five times), had put his money on a neglected entry. Jones thought that this looked like the year for Ray Billows, 34, a Poughkeepsie salesman who had reached the finals twice before-and lost both times...
...these questions Amsterdam met an even stiffer stalemate than on its attempt to define the word "church." There is a great gulf between U.S. activism and continental Europe's apparently passivist theology. Most U.S. Christians, as shown by Bromley Oxnam's tireless example, believe in muscular, active Christianity-serving their faith by works. To U.S. liberal Protestantism, most European Christians have a let-George-do-it reliance...
Heavy Breathing. State Department officials listened to all this heavy breathing with utter calm and, in the cases of some career men, with ill-concealed grins. In her muscular attempt to save face, the U.S.S.R. was abandoning two excellent listening posts, one in San Francisco and one in New York. The U.S. was losing next to nothing: merely the privilege of maintaining an isolated consular outpost in Vladivostok and of endless negotiation for a second consulate in Leningrad...
...which had never before exhibited a one-man show of a living artist. The rest, all done withinć the past 20 years, had been brought from Yugoslavia by his brother Petar. The hit of the Metropolitan show was a 5½ ton Pieta done in the muscular, dramatically contorted tradition of Michelangelo, and too big to transport to Pittsfield. The Berkshire exhibition emphasized Městrović's carved wooden bas-reliefs and single figures whose intensity made Hungarian Sculptor de Strobl's vaster ideas look blown up (see below...