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Like the charmed rats of Hamelin, Americans scamper to follow the compelling advertisement, convinced that it would be disloyal and remiss not to "remember mother," assured that one remembers best with cash, once a year. The business index will rise perceptibly, the sweet smell of roses and caramels will steep the land, but on Monday mother will be back at the washtub or Garden Club, bored, neglected, and tired. --from the May 9, 1947, CRIMSON

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mammy! | 5/7/1949 | See Source »

...righteously in defense of human dignity and freedom or we shall waste those reserves for peace and default to the forces that breed new wars ... If the United States ever again stoops to expedients ... if we cringe from the necessity of meeting issues boldly ... if we are to scamper from crisis to crisis, fixing principles and policies to the change of each day, we shall place ourselves supinely and helplessly at the mercy of any aggressor who might play on our public opinion and decimate our forces at will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: By the Stars | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

Like the charmed rats of Hamelin, Americans scamper to follow the compelling advertisement, convinced that it would be disloyal and remiss not to "remember mother," assured that one remembers best with cash, once a year. The business index will rise perceptibly, the sweet smell of roses and caramels will steep the land, but on Monday mother will be back at the washtub or Garden Club, bored, neglected, and tired...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mammy! | 5/7/1948 | See Source »

...height advantage and its precise fast break, Eliot House barely nosed out Leverett's bunnies in the roughest battle of the night, 33 to 28. Bunnry Sam Seager rang up the high score of the contest with 15 points but failed in the last minutes to infuse the required scamper into his hutchmates to overcome Eliot's five point lead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Unbeaten Puritan Five Trips Adams to Lead Intra-League | 2/10/1948 | See Source »

...Notre Dame's trigger-armed Quarterback Johnny Lujack. But no sooner had the game begun in jampacked Notre Dame stadium than Leahy uncovered another weapon: a Fighting Irish player who was actually Irish. It took Halfback Terry Brennan exactly 21 seconds to take the opening kick-off and scamper 97 yards for a touchdown. That took the spark out of Army, although they fought hard and had carefully memorized Coach Blaik's elaborate plans for stopping Johnny Lujack's passes. To make things tougher, Notre Dame uncorked a ground attack it wasn't supposed to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: One for the Irish | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

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