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...practically the same athletic boat as Harvard, facing isolation in a subsidization conscious grid world. Most of these Ivy institutions have respectable endowments and do not have to worry about a new library or the next salaries for professors so they do not need to tap the college football racket for profits and national prominence. What is right for the Ivy colleges is amatour football...
...would constitute a serious handicap to the best of cheer leaders. To compare the feeble croak of a Harvard undergraduate to the engulfing roar of an Army cadet is to set a double forte trumpet against a pianissimo harp. Still, even the harps of Harvard can make a creditable racket if aroused. The Michigan game proved that, and one is led to the conclusion that the Crimson cheer leaders could get more from the instruments with which they have to work...
Messrs. Dewey and Simpson quarreled, developed a mutual hatred, energetically sabotaged each other. Racket-Buster Dewey went over to the pros, began acting and talking like one, finally lost the GOPresidential nomination to a man with an amateur status-Wendell Willkie. Among the key men in the Willkie fight at Philadelphia were Messrs. Simpson and Barton, who allowed they knew a fighting amateur when they...
Tension. U. S. reaction was a little like that of a man winning a game of tennis who discovers that his opponent has dropped his racket and pulled out a gun. In Washington Secretary Hull stepped into his press conference, leaned on the back of his chair, and asked, "Are there any questions this morning, gentlemen?" From his pocket he extracted his familiar pince-nez with the heavy black ribbon, put them on, and read a prepared statement: "The reported alliance does not . . . substantially alter a situation which has existed for several years. Announcement of the alliance merely makes clear...
...decided upon some of the details of the building. At present University officials are attempting to obtain a contract for welding the steel girders of the building so as to avoid the noisy riveting which otherwise would be necessary. Although cheaper than welding, riveting would cause a terrific racket in the Yard, officials...