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...boys in action." The young coach did, however, name a tentative first string. The line shapes up with Bob Cochran and Jim Ross at ends, Stan Pfahl and Bernie Kafka at tackles, guards Herb Grossman and Tim Anderson, and Pete Stern at center. Stern won the starting nod over Chuck Wood and Bill Toohey, although the latter two can be expected to see plenty of action. The backfield has Tom Cambell at quarterback. Joe Conzelman and Frank White at the halfback positions and Bob Albert at fullback...
Some Americans, he added, with a curt nod in the direction of some of his fellow Republicans, would "live within the United States and forget the miserable world . . ." Said Dewey: "I want allies, and I don't care what kind of allies they are so long as they fight on our side...
...Novelists Aldous Huxley, Elizabeth Madox Roberts and Historian Claude Bowers. When Publisher Nelson Doubleday took over in 1934, all that changed. Guild Judge Burton Rascoe gave Guild members ten Doubleday books out of 13 in 1935. That vulnerable policy changed too; nowadays, very few Doubleday books get the Guild nod (two in 1950, none in 1951). But the shining literary promise of the founders has been altered in a private definition of great candor: "A literary standard as high as can be maintained in a mass operation." Most comfortably at home within this formula are a whole succession of bosom...
...told the prison chaplain a chilling story: he had confessed only after being half-starved and beaten brutally. "Somebody in back of me kept hitting me in the back of the head so that my head would nod forward and somebody else would say, 'Well, he admits that.'" The chaplain went to Judge McDevitt, who wasn't interested. Said the judge: "He confessed." Sheeler stayed in prison. But finally a University of Pennsylvania criminal-law professor named Louis B. Schwartz entered the case. Last week, largely because of his intervention, Sheeler got a new trial. This time...
...Peking came delegations from both Lama factions, seeking the Red nod. First to arrive were gum-chewing, felt-hatted retainers of the Dalai Lama, who in December had fled his capital of Lhassa before the oncoming Chinese Red army (TIME, Jan. 8). Sitting in exile on India's border, the 16-year-old Lama had decided that it was better to rule under the Chinese Reds than not to rule...