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...position on such matters as segregation by its own example. On its society pages, it prints-as very few other papers do-pictures and stones about Negroes. The paper doesn't crusade in the manner of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (TIME, Dec. 21). It aims to nip corruption before it gets a start, as it covers the city like a vacuum cleaner, picking up any small specks of dirt along with everything else. It also never forgets that it is a home-town daily. Cinemactors Pat O'Brien and Jack Carson are "Milwaukee movie stars." (But when...
...Yale statistical staff found incentive to nip on theirs, however, after Jeff Coolidge and Alan Culbert nailed the Bulldog's coffin with timely pass interceptions. Townie Boy Scouts, who did messenger work in the press box, were surprised to dig those crazy canteens...
...final round, held in total darkness, Harvard came from behind to nip Brown three team races...
...fence, David and Jerry came upon an odd object, picked it up, dropped it; there was a shattering explosion. The boys were hurled to the ground, their bodies riddled with fragments from the bazooka shell they had found. Rocky the dog was dead. In the hospital it was nip & tuck, but the boys pulled through eventually, though Jerry lost three toes, and both David's legs were amputated above the knee. That...
...Yardlings also came from behind to nip the Yale freshmen, 6 to 5, for their 15th victory in 16 starts. Captain Bill Cleary scored the winning goal--his 72nd point of the season