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Living up to a set of rules like these would make the Pacific Conference the nonpareil purity league of U. S. football. Unless its 1940 intentions turn out, after all, to be just New Year's resolutions, the Conference, in its repentant zeal, might become a circuit of universities like Chicago, which last season purified its football team out of existence. One man who sincerely hopes that may not happen is 47-year-old Clark D. Shaughnessy, coach of great Tulane teams for a dozen years, Chicago's coach (succeeding great Amos Alonzo Stagg) for the last seven...
...after the sun had set on the first game of the Series last week, Cincinnati rooters realized that they had been far too optimistic. This Yankee team was a sure-enough nonpareil. Although big Paul Derringer had pitched a magnificent game, the Yankees, with a magician at every position, had nosed out the Reds, 2-to-1. From then on, it was a rout. They won the Series in four straight games (including a two-hit shutout by ailing Monte Pearson). They won the Series for the fourth year in a row-a feat that not even nonpareils had ever...
...Hollywood, between takes, Cinemactress Greta Garbo, the Swedish nonpareil, is wont to sit aloof and brooding. Metamorphosed by her light-comedy role in her picture-in-progress (Ninotschka), she joined the offset chatter, sometimes smiled right out loud...
...nonpareil New York Yankees: a double-header against the Philadelphia Athletics, 23-to-2 and 10-to-0; in which they set two new major-league records (eight homeruns in one game and 13 homeruns in two successive games) and a new American League record (a total of 53 bases in one game); at Shibe Park, Philadelphia...
POCAHONTAS, or The Nonpareil of Virginia-David Garnett-Harcourt, Brace...