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Here's how it goes: Harvard beat Holy Cross by seven points; Holy Cross tied Dartmouth; Dartmouth outscored Brown by three; and the Bruins beat Yale by six points, the Elis losing in turn to Wisconsin by a nine-point margin. Wisconsin won over Iowa by 32 points, and, after adding all these scores together, Sly figures Harvard to be 39 points in front of Iowa by a mere 21, the Crimson obviously is eighteen points better than Leahy's Fighting Irish...
...such touchiness about this year's unprecedented profits was shown by Union Oil Co. of California, which reported profits of $13,749,940 for the first nine months (compared with $6,624,352 in the same period last year). Union's president since 1938, Reese Taylor, 48, an ex-WPBer as blunt as he is big, gained respect on the West Coast for pulling California's Consolidated Steel Corp. out of the red in the mid-'30s. He thinks business need not be apologetic about profits. Said he: "If the company is to provide an incentive...
...songs about love-battered girls. Last week, as the star of a continental variety show, Mlle. Piaf began singing (mostly in French) her drab ballads on Broadway. She flung them out resonantly, acted them out skillfully and sometimes appealingly. But she was not half as much fun as nine very gay young Frenchmen on the program, billed as Les Compagnons de la Chanson, who sing a song well and spoof a song wonderfully...
Clash of Wills. In Philadelphia, ten members of the police force trying to investigate an auto crash were kept at bay for almost nine hours by a ferocious little...
Favored to finish last in the nine-team nonagonals at Princeton, the Crimson surprised everybody including itself by grabbing eighth place with a point total of 162, just one thin point behind Navy...