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...those days, pro football was insouciant and insolvent; Halas turned it into a thriving business practically overnight. Drawn by such magical names as Red Grange and Bronko Nagurski, fans swarmed to see the Bears play; in 1925, 70,000 turned out for a game in Los Angeles. No slouch himself as a player, Halas set an N.F.L. record by running 98 yds. with a recovered fumble (the fumbler: Jim Thorpe)-but he is better remembered as perhaps the best illegal user of hands in the game...
...Kennedy withstood an Eisenhower landslide in Massachusetts to defeat Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. Jr. by 70,737 votes. With the victory over Lodge, he rose to national prominences almost overnight...
...student bureaucracy. Visiting hours end late--3 a.m. is the outer limit on some Saturday nights--but due to rules requiring open doors and burning lights, privacy during these hours is less than complete. Even students who live in off-campus apartments come under a rule against something called "overnight mixed company." The rule is seldom enforced, but last year a graduate student was expelled for living with a girl over the summer...
...clothes in the Middle Ages blossomed with a new luxuriance of embroidered accessories under the influence of the loot brought back from the Crusades. The French Revolution temporarily reduced women from elaborate confections to simpler citizens. And the emancipation of women after World War I changed them almost overnight from being "all bosoms and bottoms," as Mrs. Patrick Campbell once wisecracked, to flat-chested, flat-hipped, shingle-headed imitations of little boys...
...Overnight, her life was changed. She met a handsome young Harley Street specialist who fell madly in love with her. She had a lovely operation and came out of it feeling just fine. The doctor proposed and she said yes and they ran away to live in a charming old house on a hill overlooking a wildly romantic coast in Cornwall...