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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With an invaluable one-goal lead and the winds again at Harvard's back at the start of the second half, Coach Bruce Munro decided to switch to a more defensive game, gambling on a 1 to 0 win. The halfback line withdrew more often to augment the fullback strength, and the two insides played farther back to meet the Princeton forward line where the halfbacks normally would have...
...Crimson backs were much improved from the previous matches this season, especially in tackling, but the greater size and spirit of the Tiger scrum meant that all too often Princeton could check an attack at the last moment...
...claimed, a sure sign that he had come straight from Heaven. He was preaching the Gospel before he was a year old, and at five, she said, Elias could read the Bible upside down in several African languages. With her husband out of the way, Mother Murambodoro (who had often listened to Protestant missionaries) loudly proclaimed that Elias was Jesus reborn with a black skin, and many an African believed...
...Eugene Gifford Grace, life means competition. And in any kind of competition-from the baseball diamond to the steel mill-he likes to lead the team. For 41 of his 81 years. Gene Grace not only captained giant Bethlehem Steel Corp., but was often the industry's most articulate spokesman in its bouts with Big Labor and Government. Last week, seven months after suffering a stroke, Chairman Grace stepped down as chief executive of the company that he had molded into the nation's second-biggest producer of steel, and its biggest shipbuilder...
Putzi's book, probably his last attempt to capitalize on his career as Naziism's foremost political pianist, often reads like an edition of Munich Confidential. Politically and morally, it has the usual 20-20 hindsight. Its value for future historians will lie mostly in the gossipy anecdotes that show Hitler in his moments of off-platform relaxation-some of them very comic, as when Adolf, after the failure of the beer hall Putsch, threatens to commit suicide, but allows himself to be easily disarmed by Hanfstaengl's pregnant wife...