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...smooth going all last year for the Crimson mermen except for Yale's decisive triumph in the grand finale of the unbeaten season. The school from New Haven, no pun intended, paddled past Ulen's proteges 62 to 13. Only close meet of the season came when Dartmouth succumbed 43 to 32 as a result of a last minute Crimson triumph in the relay. Princeton was building a new pool last year and had no team. In 1946, however, the Nassau relay squad placed in the Eastern Intercollegiates, and they may easily be a surprise threat in the East this...
...think you hit a new low (no pun intended) when your cartographer scrunched my native state down into the likeness of a run-down Oxford, with its western boundary at the northern end canted at an angle of S 8° W. Its true shape, of course, is that of a smart half boot, and the boundary in question runs due N & S. I am sure there is some hellish symbolism in this deformity, but I'm not smart enough to fathom...
Born. To Russel McKinley ("Buck") Grouse, 55, pun -loving half of the writing-producing Lindsay & Grouse team (Life with Father, Arsenic and Old Lace, State of the Union), and second wife Anna Erskine Grouse, 32, daughter of Author John Erskine: their second child, first daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Lindsay Ann Grouse. Weight...
...margin of 54.4% to 55.1%-What pained the Democrats most was the national attention which the election got. They had started the fight; they could not alibi their way out of it now. The P.A.C. had poured out money and speakers whose principal campaign weapon was a pun: they called the new labor law the "Tuff-Heartless Act." Phil Murray, Walter Reuther, Alexander Whitney and other brasshats of labor had issued statements; Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. lent his name and presence. As for a trend, the Republicans could cite one: the Taft-Hartley Act is apparently not a liability...
Last week, wags expressed their feeling that the music was derivative in a German pun: "Nicht von einem sondern von anderen" (not by one but by others). By the "others," music lovers meant chiefly Mussorgsky and Stravinsky. But, added one critic: "Mussorgsky never wrote his principal themes for the bass drum...