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...line coach since 1947 under former Brown coach "Rip" Eagle, Zitrides developed great popularity with members of the team. When Eagle left for Penn State last year, Zitrides became the new Brown coach partly through the petitioning of Brain players...
Until last year, Brown hadn't won a football game in the Stadium since 1938. But Rip Engle's team gave its coach a going-away present in the form of a 28 to 14 victory to break the jinx...
...three wire services, United Press, Associated Press and International News Service. When the communiqué-the only real news in the meeting-was issued, it was sent down to the radio shack for transmission. Before it could be sent, Smith took his own copy of the communiqué, rip-roodled off to the radio shack and peremptorily ordered the operator, "in the name of the White House," to send it. The trusting operator complied. By the time the pooled message was sent, Smith and the U.P. had a clear beat of 40 minutes...
...loved rushed at her as much for vengeance as for grief, almost like wolves into the circle of a dying fire that had drawn them yet filled them with fear. In a fitful half-light of awareness, the characters of Brendan Gill's soft-moving, almost plotless novel rip tooth & nail at the memory of Elizabeth-at each other for possession of it, and finally each at himself in remorse for the dried smallness of his own loveless heart...
...last week unions were running with ladders, hooks, pruning shears and bushel baskets to get the pickings. In most cases just a little shaking of the tree did the work. All the big automakers raced to rip up their old contracts and raise wages. Some 750,000 of its members, said the C.I.O.'s United Auto Workers last week, have fattened their pay envelopes by wage hikes of about 10? an hour...