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...eight points) University of Miami, first major upset of the college football season. The Seminole defense stifled Miami's ground game, held Glamour Boy Quarterback George Mira to 18 completions in 40 pass attempts. In another surprise, Air Force zoomed 91 yds. in the last 3 min. to nip favored Washington, 10-7. Other scores: Southern California 14 Colorado...
Even among the energetic young men of the New Frontier, Freeman is notably diligent. He gets up at 6:30 every morning, starts the day with nip-ups, and is sitting at his desk by 8. When he leaves the office in the evening, he carries home two briefcases. He had a little office built in the basement of his suburban Maryland house, and after dinner he goes down there and pores over the contents of the briefcases until midnight. Sunday is the only day he reserves for his family: Wife Jane, Daughter Constance, 17, and Son Mike, 14. Freeman...
...Kelso: the $109,750 John B. Campbell Handicap, at Maryland's Bowie Race Course, thus becoming the third-biggest money winner in U.S. racing history (behind Round Table and Nashua). Carrying 131 lbs., Mrs. Richard C. du Font's great gelding rushed from behind to nip Crimson Satan by three-quarters of a length. The victory, Kelso's second in a $100,000-added race within a week, was worth $71,337-pushing his total winnings...
Your story about New Frontier nip-ups, and President Roosevelt's requirements for unlucky foreign diplomats [Feb. 15], brought to mind William Roscoe Thayer's account of the dispatch that the new French Ambassador M. Jusserand sent to Paris soon after his arrival in this country during Roosevelt's term of office...
...Georgia. Ex-Governor Griffin, running for a return trip to Atlanta, assured an audience that there was only one way to handle integrationist "agitators." Said he: "There ain't but one thing to do and that is to cut down a blackjack sapling and brain 'em and nip 'em in the bud." Griffin hastily added that he didn't mean to be taken literally-but obviously, in some circles, he was. For as Griffin let out all the segregationist stops in the closing days of one of Georgia's bitterest, dirtiest Democratic primary campaigns, racial...