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...this point, Leverett elected to try for a field goal. The crowd laughed when big Norm Cameron backed up, adjusted his helmet, and prepared to boot the ball from such a formidable distance, but the gasped a moment later when a long low kick sailed toward the uprights. The ball struck the cross-bar and bounded back on the field, and the Elephants lowered their trunks, gave a long sigh of relief, and took over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bunnies, Elephants Fight 0-0 Tie; Adams Eleven Mangles Winthrop | 10/25/1946 | See Source »

With five minutes to go in the ball game, Leveret's Norm Cameron kicked the season's first placement for an extra point to give the Bunnies a closely contested victory over Lowell House, 7 to 6. Eliot completely dominated Winthrop in the other House football league clash yesterday, coming...

Author: By Richard A. Green, | Title: Bunnies Belt Bellboys 7 to 6 As Eliot Tramples Puritans | 10/22/1946 | See Source »

...Government's cost-of-living index is now 125.5 (against the prewar norm of 100). With the upcoming price boosts, Governm.ent experts expect it to hit 130 before long. Industries where pay has been boosted have not yet knocked on Gordon's door for price boosts. But he feels that they will come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE DOMINION: The Size of the Bill | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

From the U.S. Public Health Service last week came a warning: diphtheria is on the rise. The number of cases, 10,335 so far this year, was not alarming, but it was some 2,500 above the recent norm, reversed a 25-year trend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Diphtheria Up | 9/16/1946 | See Source »

...prize crew of ex-All-Americans, such top-salaried stars as Chicago's Elroy ("Crazy Legs") Hirsch; Los Angeles' "Jarrin' " John Kimbrough; Brooklyn's thread-needle passer Glen Dobbs; New York's flat-footed Frank Sinkwich; San Francisco's 245-lb. fullback Norm Standlee. So far the old league wasn't speaking to the new, though they played in three of the same cities-New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. Until their feuding stopped, pro football would have no World Series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Kickoff | 9/16/1946 | See Source »

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