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Facing high winds in the morning trial beats, the high-stroking Germans barely qualified. They lost to Cornell by half a length, and just nosed out Wisconsin by two feet for second place and a ticket in the finals. The race was their first defeat in America.
After years of delay and months of suspense, the U.S. has all but decided to enter belatedly the race to build a supersonic jetliner. A special Cabinet committee headed by Vice President Johnson will shortly send to the White House a long-awaited report strongly recommending that the Government bear...
The way the Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers play it, Dr. Naismith would never recognize his game. Champions and challengers, East and West, old pros and ambitious upstarts, they are basketball's Hatnelds and McCoys. In nine games during the regular season, the Celtics won four, the...
Two near dead-heat finishes in the distance races provided most of the excitement in the long and wet afternoon. In the two-mile, Bill Crain and Eddie Meehan far outdistanced their opposition and walked across the finish line together. Holy Cross's Tom Noering nosed out Meehan in the...
Anshutz was a student of nature, drawing most of his inspiration from the workaday world. He had simple, direct ideas of truth in painting and how to go about it: "Get up an outfit for outdoor work, go out into some woe-begotten, turkey-chawed, bottle-nosed, henpecked country and...