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...late he recalls that he was seen entering the girl's apartment by a man, identity unknown. The publisher sets out to find the witness. He puts the super-sleuthing editor (Ray Milland) of his detective magazine on the trail. Milland is told that he is after "a payoff man in an enormous war-contract scandal," but it doesn't take him long to find out that he is really chasing himself: he was the witness...
There is reason to believe that Radcliffe's interest is part of the payoff for New England's nationwide advertising of its winter sport. Sally Leavitt '49 is sure of it. The daughter of the headmaster of Vermont Academy, whose Winter Carnival 40 years ago gave a Dartmouth junior the inspiration for Hanover's first similar event, she has seen skiing history made in her own state...
...found a federation of their own. Ibáñez fought back, breaking with Lombardo and C.T.A.L., but he would probably have been licked if Chilean President Gabriel González Videla had not jettisoned the Communists and become his friend. Last week's conference was the payoff. C.I.T.'s new president knows better than to tie up with the Communists again. Says he: "The Commies are going to use every dirty trick in the bag. We are ready for them...
...this year, unable to swallow another licking by Texas (32-13), old grads put up the money to buy up his unexpired contract and send him packing. Was he mad at his dismissal? Not he. Said Homer: the payoff was fine, and as for Texas A. & M., "My best wishes go with them always...
Forcefully demonstrating the results of a year's scouting and planning by hard-thinking quarter J. "Anyface" Carodny '48, shown above as he plunged into thought for the vital tally in Saturday's payoff grid encounter, a highly lubricated Plympton Street aggregation outrushed, outpassed, and out-talked a pawky and uncoordinated crew of Yale Daily Newsmen by a 23 to 2 count...