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...Notre Dame and its first perfect season in 15 years was a so-so Southern California squad that had lost three out of nine games. True, U.S.C. had some thing worth fighting for- a possible Rose Bowl bid- but the Irish had some thing worth more: the national cham pionship. "This is our Rose Bowl," said Coach Parseghian, and few of the 83,-840 fans in Los Angeles Memorial Col iseum could have believed in their hearts that they were about to witness the upset of the year...
Then the Aussies slowed down. Highly favored to take the unofficial team cham pionship, they dropped into second place behind a surprisingly well-balanced squad from England. A solid third: Canada. But there was high hope in Aussie hearts. Their collective failure could be wiped out in the biggest event of the games: the "Mile of the Century." Long John Landy, their world's-record beater (3:58) was primed to run the race of his life...
...they outplay 100 to 500 opponents and finish in the money. When a professional wins the National Open championship, No. 1 U. S. golf event, he receives only $1,000 cash-about the same amount a second-rate prize fighter gets as a preliminary attraction to a world-cham-pionship fight-plus advertising which has no fixed cash value...
...match ended. It set the stage for a final in which Miss Van Wie's opponent for the title she won a year ago was her close friend and houseguest, Helen ("Billie") Hicks. Still a little chagrined at failing to qualify for last year's cham- pionship, after winning the year before, Helen Hicks, swinging her driver with a masculine wrist-flick and punching out her irons like a pro, had beaten square-jawed Maureen Orcutt...
...made particular observations up on the relations between the foreign Nationals and the Chinese. As a debater at Harvard, Kwong had an especially bril Hant record, his efforts being a major factor in tho Harvard success in 1927 and 1928 when the University won the Intercollegiate Debating League cham pionship...