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...Republican Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin, 42, fireman's son, lawyer, spellbinder. All other Democrats on the ticket were elected, but Republicans had won the best flitch of political bacon. Democrats, who have lost the mayoralty only twice before since 1900, blamed the defeat on 1) the accumulated enmities which pile up on any longtime officeholder, 2) the preponderance of women voters, 3) the apathy of Negro Democrats...
...game of the season will be played on Saturday at 2:30 o'clock when the British colonial-studded Harvard team meets a squad from the British Navy. At the last contest with an English Navy team, the Crimson came out on the bottom of a 6 to 5 pile...
...league leading team of Class D continued on its winning way last week by defeating Class B in a slugfest that ended only after a score of 12 to 9 had been piled up. This win places Class D in a favored position to win the first round of the senior games in view of the fact that it has only to face Class A which is at the present time resting on the bottom of the pile having lost all of its games...
...next hour was full of our boys parachuting down. Lucien landed in a pile of brush, wrapped himself in his parachute and went to sleep. Brick landed hard on his fanny on top of the next mountain peak and dozed off. One boy landed beside a mountain ledge, lit a cigaret in the dark, flicked the burnt butt on the ground beside him. He looked down and saw the butt dropping hundreds of feet below him into what seemed a bottom less void. He didn't move another foot until daylight. Crouch hit the ground about 20 miles from...
...picture of the miser who thinks he is achieving genuine wealth by curtailing consumption until he starves, simultaneously adding to his pile of gold, is far from a grotesque illustration of some of our policies in the past...