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His Red sympathies landed him in Ellis Island for two weeks in 1938. In white tie & tails the suave, beak-nosed Strachey (6 ft. 2 in.) enthralled U.S. audiences. But Communist policy in 1939 was too much for Strachey. He broke with them and did manful penance until the Laborites...
After getting out of the tanks and onto the river March 11, the Varsity crew spent a hectic two months trying to fit the right man in the right seat for the quadrangular race against Cornell, Princeton, and M.I.T. on May 4. Stroked by Lou Cox, who replaced be-measled...
Then with the war still on, a far greater emphasis on the sciences appeared. Economics, always a favorite, was still ahead with ten per cent of 300 students choosing it. But Chemistry came next with 24, and Biochemical Sciences held fourth place with 18, barely nosed out by English. Government...
Paul Coste, who also figured in Friday's triumph, landed in a triple tie for fifth place by shooting a score of 171. Mulcahy's 82-81, which nosed out Jack Harvey, of Boston College, by two strokes, was the highest score ever to win the event and made him...
Flattening the rails under the thrust of its screeching brakes, Bill Elaine's bullet-nosed diesel locomotive ripped through the steel rear Pullman like gutting a catfish and buckled the lighter diner ahead. Said a priest: "I saw bodies . . . decapitated . . . crushed beyond human shape." The total death toll was...