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Only a narrow belt along the seacoast of Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut escaped the minus readings, but night brought temperatures of 10 degrees to that strip...
M.I.T. defeated the varsity sailing team, 2 to 1, in a preliminary Fowle Trophy meet yesterday. Earlier in the day, the Crimson, led by Fred Hoppin and Ace Langworthy, eliminated Rhode Island, and M.I.T., eliminated Boston College from the trophy race...
Rear-Commodore Fred Hoppin will lead the squad in tomorrow's N.E.I.S.A. contest against Amherst, Boston College, and Rhode Island. At the same time, a skilled M.I.T. team, which has twice defeated the Crimson this year, will compete with three other colleges in New London. The twin events precade the elimination bouts for the New England championship...
...confident-and perhaps overconfident-frame of mind, the Stevenson men had already counted their convention delegates. They decided that they already had enough votes (about 600), including reasonably solid delegations from Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Indiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona. Rhode Island, New Jersey, North Carolina, West Virginia, Arkansas, Mississippi, Kansas, Oregon, Missouri and Michigan. Already thinking about vice-presidential possibilities, the Stevensonites had also concluded that they did not want Alabama's Senator John Sparkman, who, they felt, was dead weight on the 1952 ticket...
...fight with Stevenson. Added Prendergast: Stevenson "isn't going to stampede anybody." Two nights later, to underline the Harriman push, Tammany Hall Boss Carmine De Sapio lavishly entertained some 50 Democratic bigwigs from a dozen states, e.g., Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington (not without presidential hopes himself), Rhode Island Governor Dennis Roberts, Pittsburgh Mayor and Democratic Leader David Lawrence. After dinner at Manhattan's "21," De Sapio hustled all his guests off to ringside seats (top price, $40) at the Marciano-Moore heavyweight championship fight in Yankee Stadium...