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...lighter but has had more practice, and, as they look on the river, ought to provide plenty of opposition for the Yardling crew. Harvey Love is confident that the boat will go well once the boys get the proper mileage and water conditions, but up to now the pent up strength has been as much of a hindrance as an asset. "I am pleased with the results of the time trial Tuesday when the first beat the second by a good three lengths and was going better than it had for a week," Harvey commented...
...performances. Lee Cobb may be called the conscience of the drama. He conveys the futility and emotional vehemence of a man fighting for his ideals. Everywhere he is frustrated; at times, sad to relate, by the script itself which does not permit an adequate expression of his pent-up spleen...
...party itself. Dignified, unbending, difficult in his personal relations, vulnerable to attack, sensitive to slights, losing votes by his stiffness as fast as he won them by his integrity and intelligence, he remained the symbol of Republicanism-just as he had been the symbol of its defeat when the pent-up storm burst on his head in 1932. Left-wing Republicans looked on him as The Man Who Came to Dinner-when slights did not work, they tried to make him an Elder Statesman; when he still refused to go away, they agreed hastily that he was the ablest...
...Penitentiary is old enough to be remembered with horror by Dickens in his American Notes (1842). It was known then, as now, as the Cherry Hill prison. One night last week, over Philadelphia's KYW, the inmates of 110-year-old Cherry Hill staged their Christmas musicale. Sixteen pent-up voices serenaded The Little Man Who Wasn't There; assorted whistlers, fiddlers, ladybug plunkers whanged away at heart strings beyond the walls. But the tune that dampened the eyes of Warden Herbert ("Cap") Smith and beefy Deputy Tom Meikrantz was a Chinese prisoner's song, written...
Another unknown quantity who may turn out to be valuable is big Tony Mott who has returned after a two year interval. Mott played fullback in 1936 on Larry Kelley's eleven, was not in college the following year, and last Fall was pent up on the sidelines because of an early injury. Besides his ability in the kicker's role, he is invaluable on the defense...