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...Cambridge, the Varsity eleven suffered what was considered a catastrophic blow. Three regulars were injured going into the Army game and could not play. The Cadets won that game 7 to 6. They were almost overpowered by a savage Crimson attack but capitalized on two fumbles to score their payoff touchdown...
...four years, Pepsi-Cola's annual show has become a major art event. The cogent reason: Pepsi offers more cash (though not more prestige) than any other art show. This year's payoff: $35,950 in prizes...
That a veteran would cash in his bond only to pad his safe deposit account was regarded as highly doubtful by Richard M. Goodwin, assistant professor of Economics. He considered that where the payoff money came from was the determining factor in estimating a possible inflationary effect...
Biographer Stryker's strip job, for all his courtroom ardor, is disappointing. At such length that tedium is the payoff, he uses conventional history to sketch in the political background for Erskine's cases. Thus he and the reader lose sight of Erskine for pages at a time. The mighty barrister emerges as less a man than a disembodied voice making noble utterances...
...turning a penny occasionally out of his favors to friends. The Government produced records of two $1,000 checks May had pocketed, a $2,500 deposit in his account by Murray Garsson, an old $5,000 note Murray had obligingly paid off at the bank. But the biggest payoff was an enterprise known as the Cumberland Lumber Co., conveniently located in Andy's home town of Prestonsburg, Ky. The owners were Murray and Henry Garsson; their agent was Andy...