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Yesterday, a scant five days before the game, the H.A.A. casually destroyed the plans of thousands who had invited their families and other guests to attend Harvard's most important athletic event of the year. By placing their applications a month to two months in advance, those thousands were acting in good faith with the H.A.A. That faith was not reciprocated. It was not reciprocated out of any malevolent intention on the part of the Athletic Association, but only out of stupidity. For if the H.A.A. lacked the intelligence to realize that every major collegiate football game since the beginning...
Economically Guatemala can expect scant enough assistance from its northern neighbor. But the Mexican revolution, long since gone paunchy, serves Guatemala as a neat talking point to scare foreign business interests into a reasonable mood...
...Dunsters never threatened, playing a defensive game all the way which featured three goal line stands to hold their opponents to a lower score than was indicated by actual play. They were seriously handicapped in the second half when injuries reduced their playing strength to a scant...
Coupled with the customary reservation of the three choicest sections of the theatre for regular Symphony Hall subscribers, the established practice of giving members of the faculty first claim on the six hundred tickets allotted to the University, leaves students a scant eighty-two "rush" seats for each of the year's six concerts...
...recent years Flagg has feasted his eyes and practiced his art increasingly in Hollywood. Among his sitters: Greta Garbo ("I was immediately sunk; sunk to the eyebrows in adoration of this former Svenska barber shop assistant . . . the two of us paid scant attention to anybody else from that moment until midnight"); Hedy LaMarr ("She would be the only living woman I would forgive for not having full breasts"); and Joan Fontaine (she "has'everything...