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...college football season characterized by colossal upsets, the Dixie cup runneth over. Last week-while Ohio State, Texas Christian and the Army Cadets toppled from the ranks of the undefeated and untied-two of the three big-time teams remaining on the top rung represented Southern colleges, located within 70 miles of one another: the University of Georgia and Georgia Tech...
...this size, wealth and glamor, as top man of West Coast boilermakers, is squarejawed, hotheaded Thomas John Crowe, 47, IBBMISBWHA's Pacific Coast international representative. He started as an apprentice at 13, earning 10? an hour heating rivets at Parsons, Kans., and has climbed the union ladder rung by rung. Belligerent, tough, willing to crack heads if necessary to get what he wants, Tom Crowe has the reputation of a square shooter. West Coast management knows him as a man who will keep his word, once given. When welders tried to break away from IBBMISBWHA in July...
...asked Grouser, "do you date Business School men?" "Well" replied one of the few girls who were still in the office after the 5:00 o'clock bells had rung, "some of us do.--Six of the girls are married and several engaged...
After three days in outlying Chinese cities, Willkie arrived at Chungking's suburban airport in a Douglas piloted by Baltimore-born Moon Chen, first man to complete a flight across the Himalayas. A welcoming crowd of 10,000 was headed by Finance Minister H. H. ("Daddy") Rung, U.S. Ambassador Clarence Edward Gauss and gallant Lieut. General Joseph ("Uncle Joe") Stilwell...
Music, by nature and definition, can only mean itself. The parts of Shostakovitch's work which have rung true in the past have been the slow, introspective, semi-ecclesiastical movements like the first movement of his Fifth symphony. Here he is presenting the sombre, God-seeking element of Russian life that he understands. Beethoven was successful with his "Eroica" symphony in memory of Napoleon, because he himself was a big enough man to make the music strong and sincere. Shostakovitch is no Beethoven, and the twenties was not a time for breeding heroic figures, but what the present lacks...