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Socked with 27 points in the first quarter, the underrated Scarlet eleven got up off the floor to overpower the Lions completely for two periods and finally lead 28 to 27. They crossed Columbia's goal twice more in the final quarter, but the referee disallowed these scores, and the Lions finally won on the strong right arm of Gene Rossides...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/29/1947 | See Source »

...unmarried "liberal" of 33, John Laskell found himself near death from scarlet fever, then found himself almost in love with his illness and the state of passive contemplation that he had discovered in it. When he tried to describe his feeling to his radical friends, he only succeeded in alienating them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Soul-Searcher | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

...Osbert's previous volumes Left Hand, Right Hand and The Scarlet Tree, the dark patches in the tapestry are family matters: the confused tyrannies of the writer's puttering father, the rages and tragic secrecies of his Plantagenet mother. Sir Osbert himself was 19 in 1911, free at last from Eton, but not free from Sir George Sitwell's fuzzy determination to make him a cavalryman. One gentle burlesque that makes this book vivid is Sir Osbert's memory of cavalry training at Aldershot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Fruit Was Ripe ... | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

...Varsity didn't get its four touchdowns or even enough points to equal three. But neither did the Scarlet and White tally thrice...

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: Crimson Line Fools Experts In 19-14 Win | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

...addition to Captain Don Giles the halfback who completed 20 of 45 passes last year without best end Boston, the Scarlet and White have sophomore John Toner, rumored to be more accurate than Giles, working under the center...

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: Crimson Faces Upstart B.U. Eleven | 10/4/1947 | See Source »

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