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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's lineup switches were the first major ones so far this season. In an effort to strengthen the middleweights, Coach Bob Pickett has dropped Captain Chick Chandler from the 167 to the 157 pound class. Senior Tony Caimi, who beat Ken Miller in a test match yesterday afternoon, has moved into the 167 slot for Chandler...
...other change in the lineup will be Ed Keating in place of Don Fern in the 123 pound class. Otherwise, the team remains the same as the one which beat Tufts, 33-5, before Christmas...
...raisers know what happened to hogs last year," said Benson. "They were selling for 16? a pound a year ago -only 77% of parity. There was some agitation for hog supports then. But Secretary Brannan at that time didn't think supports were feasible . . . What did farmers do when they knew there would be no price supports . . .? You bred 12% fewer sows for spring farrow this year-5% fewer sows for fall farrow. And hog prices bounced back quickly. Some of you sold hogs here in Chicago this week for $24 . . . Doesn't this make a pretty good...
...England in H. F. M. Prescott's superb Mary Tudor. Among the remaining literary biographies, some were dull but useful (F. Holmes Dudden's exhaustive Henry Fielding, Leon Edel's first volume of Henry James) ; some were long on sympathy if short on brilliance (Reginald Pound's Arnold Bennett, Lionel Stevenson's able Ordeal of George Meredith); and a few actually enlarged their subjects' dimensions (Betty Miller's Robert Browning, David Magarshack's Chekhov, Antony Alpers' Katherine Mansfield). In one book that was not properly a biography, two well-known...
Following the freshman triumph, the Yardlings elected Tom H. Rockel of Thayer Hall and Storrs, Ct., captain of the 1953-5 squad. Rockel, 157 pound wrestler from Moses Brown, had pinned his opponent in the second fastest time of the night...