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Early season dopesters found the Crimson rife with backfield talent but weak in the line. The B.U. contest, however, brought a rapid revision of estimates, and Harlow is now working to secure greater depth in his backfield...
Great Expectations. Rife with old suspicions and enmities, tired, discouraged and uncertain of their leaders, the miners were in a sense symbolic of all Britons. "Never," said the Times of London in its grimmest attack on the Government to date, "has a ministry fallen so far short of pent-up expectations as Mr. Attlee's Government." The people of Britain, added the News Chronicle, "are tired of walking downhill in the dark...
Prime Minister Clement Attles was asked to resign by the ordinarily pro-government London Daly Mirror yesterday as he summoned top ranking cabinet officers to a conference last night. Speculation was rife as to whether a coalition government, including Conservatives and Liberals, would be determined at the 10 Downing Street conclave...
...Rife as it is with florid incident and outrageous coincidence, this yarn is hardly credible on a purely "realistic" basis. But it has about it a great deal of the strange and thrilling logic of a fairy tale, a poem or a dream. It is even an allegory though not a rigid...
...MacDonald's cackle-happy best-seller about a city couple who learn to run a poultry farm, will probably be just as popular as the book. Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert, who pretend to be the distraught pioneers, are sure-fire box-office comedians. And the show is rife with sure-fire laughs...