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...ended with the Bears leading 14-to-7. The second quarter was scoreless, and Redskin rooters moaned when Sam Baugh was pulled out from under four of the larger Bears and was led off the field. In the third period Sam Baugh came back, limping. He then proceeded to outdo himself, successfully passing while running at full speed, while Bears clung to him, while on one knee. Three of these passes, good for a total of 167 yd., were also good for three touchdowns. The Bears meanwhile came back and scored one. One minute before the end of the game...
...last national campaign was greatly confused. . . . Both parties campaigned largely with bait to particular groups and sections. In this confused situation the Republican Party attempted to outdo some of the New Deal baits. As one cynic over stated it, 'It promised every measure of the New Deal but said it would do it cheaper...
...with, avers Author Brown, there is too much muddled sentimentalizing about society's responsibility for the insane. Most patients are the victims of their own ''damn foolishness." Business men (the largest group) at Bloomingdale were there because they were "hogs"' who cracked up trying to outdo Rockefeller. Another big group were reaping the just reward of philandering and boozing. ''Love nests rear nothing but 'cuckoos.' ' Then again, the hit-or-miss breeding of the human race "is largely to blame." His own breakdown occurred in 1929, after directorship of the Museum...
...rich, fewer still Author Tunis judged to have won "genuine distinction" (TIME, Sept. 14). Up for scrutiny this year stand 536 Harvardmen of the Class of 1912. The proud 1912 alumni plan the "greatest and most elaborate" 25th reunion yet staged in Cambridge, chafe to outdo Author Tunis' rumpled Class of 1911 in display and distinction. When the 1912 Reunion Committee met in Boston last month, the Boston committeemen sported cutaways, top hats and sticks to demonstrate that the local 1912 representation comprised elegant gentlemen not to be confused with Boston's traditional "sloppy dressers." In its first...
...summer of 1935, seven smart Manhattanites, including George McAneny, banker politician, Grover Aloysius Whalen, supersalesman and onetime Police Commissioner, and R. H. Macy & Co.'s President Percy Selden Straus, came together to discuss Mr. McAneny's theory that New York could outdo Chicago with a World's Fair even bigger & better than the Century of Progress. After a summer of conversations, Mr. McAneny & friends invited 121 Manhattan bigwigs to a meeting at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, proposed to them a plan for a World's Fair company. From the enthusiasm of that occasion sprang the most...