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...last event before the relay, as his second finish over Navy Millar in this event clinched the outcome of the battle. Hence the surprise triumph of the 400-yard freestyle relayers Norm Watkins, John Watkins, Walt Bullard, and Bill MacVicar turned a one-point edge into a 15-point rout...
...bottom of every ballot distributed today and tomorrow will be a simple choice, printed in bold-face type for easy reading: Yes or No. The temptation of ignorance runs always toward negation; Harvard College in the post-war can rout the dual enemies of immaturity and indifference this afternoon with a modest check in the square next to the word...
...started from the four cardinal points, which are Picasso, Matisse, Braque and Bonnard. They were the armored spearhead that broke through the enemy defenses. We have been the fighting infantry which poured through the gap they opened; we widened the breach and eventually we will rout the enemy. We may not be the creators they were-time alone will decide that. But we did achieve one thing: we have changed . . . that mass of more or less enlightened public for whom those four masters were undecipherable phenomena. It is a fact that now people make an effort to see without their...
With a 66 to 44 smothering from Brown and a happier 72 to 38 rout of Gordon College as pre-vacation experience, the Jayvees will be striving to stay on the victory, road as they return to the Cambridge court...
...writhes in another world crisis--when the votes of next Tuesday's election are tabulated and the Eightieth Congress is on its way to Washington. Both the pages of history and the opinions of "political experts" portend a loss of Democratic power. But should scattered defeats become a national rout, both the voting records of Republican congressmen and the plans of G.O.P. leaders augur two years of stalemate and a future of reaction...