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...sound too many-a persistent bullfrog in a nearby pond. Every time Baritone Thomas began to sing, the bullfrog answered. Thomas hit a low note, the bullfrog followed him. At last Thomas was about ready to holler "Uncle." Before he began his next song, a beater was delegated to quell the disturber. Thomas lifted up his voice, the bullfrog chimed in. The beater cracked the water with his stick. The startled bullfrog shut his mouth. Singer Thomas opened his wider...
Whether Dartmouth, which took a big stride forward by defeating Cornell, 68 to 53, Saturday night, can shake off Princeton is another matter. Ossie Cowles' quintet did its best to quell the Tiger threat by turning back the New Jersey quintet on two occasions, but so far no one else in the league has ben able to halt the Nassau entry...
...when three Negro boys, one aged twelve, pounced on a white boy outside Central Park, stabbed him to death. Few days later, in dark Morningside Park, another gang robbed, stripped and killed a white man. Mayor LaGuardia, himself a Harlem resident, sent 324 more cops into Harlem to quell its young criminals. Four days later, under the Mayor's very nose, a burglar looted an apartment across the hall from...
Although he spoke with characteristic flourish, the Prime Minister failed to quell a widespread uneasiness. He had not accounted for the fact that Britain's naval losses at Crete were greater than the Italian losses at Matapan (see p. 32). He had not satisfied many of his listeners that the British High Command was up-to-date as to military brains. And many hearers had found the Prime Minister's thrusts at his critics bitter beyond all reason...
Largely by means of sheer eloquence, Churchill had been able to keep most Britons' devotion in the face of Narvik, Dunkirk, the Luftwaffe, Libya, Greece-and to quell general fears that Britain's wartime productivity was far short of what it should and might be. But last week, with Crete added to the somber list of defeats, a tide of opinion arose in Britain to the effect that one more major defeat-such as the loss of the Suez Canal-would call for a radical change, if not the exit of the Churchill Government. Few doubted that Prime...