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Reacting particularly fast to Princeton's numerous, nameless variations were defensive halfbacks Bob Cowles and Tony Gianelly. The veteran Cowles played the same vicious ball he has played for three years, while Gianelly made two key pass interceptions and tackled harder than he has all season. In continuing to progress with each game, the big sophomore picked up one-third of the team's rushing total, including several crucial first downs...
Once the victim of nameless assaulters every Saturday, the wooden posts have taken their place among the former traditions of Harvard College. Their passing might signify the end of gracious living here, except that there was never anything gracious about the struggling mobs...
...Chagall was born in Vitebsk, Russia, has carried a memory of his homeland through a life of wanderings. He came to Paris in 1910, lived through both prewar cubism and postwar surrealism, took something from both, was captured by neither. Instead, he clung to his own haunting evocations of nameless gaiety and wistful sadness, in a weightless world of objects flung aloft by some superhuman juggler and suspended in midair. Many of his themes derive from the Russian folk tales and Jewish rituals of his youth, still more from his happy marriage with his late wife Bella, whose image...
...young girls, exquisitely suggestible, divide as the pair has divided, some du cote de Mlle. Julie, the others devoted to Mlle. Cara-all innocently, giddily suspended in the nameless tension of the emotional contest. As it fills every room and scene with the breath of girls in the bud, with an air of girlish whispers, forbidden perfume and muffled laughter. Pit of Loneliness falls nothing short of magic...
...IndoChina war (see below). Glaring headlines and the wrench of huge casualty figures jolted the French public. Parisians by the thousands paid visits to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, under the Arc de Triomphe, and tiny bunches of violets, bought for a few francs in honor of nameless fallen Frenchmen half a world away, were deposited alongside the big formal wreaths that are nearly always there...