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...Yale game, however, relieved a lot of the sting from the close defeats. Suddenly, everything seemed to go as it should, and as the New York Times said, "on the rapier thrusts of Barry Wood's forward passes Harvard marched to victory." Both touchdowns in the 13-0 win were scored by Huguley on passes from Wood. Notable, too, was Captain Ticknor's performance: observers say he played the best game of his career in the Yale Bowl that afternoon and was instrumental in stopping the Elis' Booth for the second straight year...
Publisher Graham, who registered Republican in 1952 (to help Ike defeat Robert Taft for the nomination), insists that the Post is merely following its independent conscience, recalls that "Harry Truman didn't like the Post either."* The Post has, indeed, taken its rapier (and at times its club) to anyone at the seat of Government. It approved of much in Harry Truman's Fair Deal, but it was unrelenting in its criticism of the corruption in his Administration. It praised Alf M. Landon and Wendell Willkie highly, but withheld formal support from any presidential candidate until Graham broke...
Laborite Richard Rapier Stokes, acidly observing that Monckton was the fourth Tory at the Defense Ministry in four years, attacked the government for failing either to coordinate effective research for tomorrow's war or to provide the weapons for today's. "There are no airplanes," he said, "and it is no use pretending that there are." A successful industrialist himself (iron foundries, etc.), Stokes asserted that British aircraft manufacturers "have been living on their failures." In ten years, he said, Britain has spent $2.8 billion on 166 aircraft projects, 142 of which "went into the wastepaper basket...
Chevalier's humor, obvious as most of it is, is full of subtle rapier-thrusts compared to the other film on the Brattle bill. Down Memory Lane, a collection of old Hollywood comedy sequences, offers such attractions as the Keystone Cops in a typical chase, W. C. Fields as a dentist searching for a patient's mouth in his beard, and Bing Crosby with a full head of hair. Sound effects have been dubbed in expertly, and the old-timers are consistently hilarious. As a matter of fact, the present-day Steve Allen is plainly overwhelmed. His comic narration serves...
...stage, the audience feels caught and carried in the icy passion of a superhuman chess game in which the stakes are life or death for more than Joan. Compared of course to the virile mace-work of George Bernard Shaw in his Saint Joan, it is sometimes oversubtle rapier play in the Gallic fashion that scores points but does not really make a wound. The actors, however, under brilliant coaching by Director Joseph Anthony, use their weapons with such skill and fury that the beholder can often mistake words for swords. In all, the play lacks the emotional substance...