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...Philadelphia last week, like the seesawing rubbernecks at a tennis match, eyes kept shifting from the Scoreboard clock to the field. Mighty Army was trailing Pennsylvania, 20-19, and there was less than a minute to play. Army's cool, spindle-legged Quarterback Arnold Galiffa called one fruitless off-tackle smash, one pass that went incomplete. Then he eyed the clock, too. Thirty-five seconds left...
After it was finally over, when all the scoreboard lights went out except those that said, Harvard 20--Yale 7, an old, old grad--he must have been about 70--sat down on the concrete steps and, smiling from ear to ear, lit a big after-dinner cigar...
...first figures on the big Scoreboard were jarring. Pundits explained soothingly that it was only the big-city vote, which was expected to be Democratic anyway. But the first faint chill swept over the gathering. The totals on the board mounted, the minutes dragged into hours, but the Dewey landslide still had not begun. At 11:30 Brownell appeared again, proudly announced that Dewey had carried Philadelphia (he was wrong-Truman did, by 7,500), and flatly claimed the election...
...Harlem Globetrotters, pro basketbailers, are so good that they spend most of their time playing for laughs. Up to last week they had won 101 games this season and lost none. Usually, they so far outclassed their opposition that spectators seldom glanced at the Scoreboard. They paid to see the famed Negro team do their tricks (rolling the ball down their arms, through the enemy's legs, or lining up in formation like a football team). The team's star: Reece ("Goose") Tatum, whose huge hands dangle gorilla-fashion almost to his knees, and who handles a basketball...
Reading the national Scoreboard, Stassen was even cockier. When he first arrived in Montpelier last week, he was "reasonably sure" of 200 first-ballot delegates. By the time he left Portland, five days later, he thought he could count on 230 (against Dewey's estimated 350 and Taft's 200 to 250), including 17 of New England's 30 votes. Said Stassen confidently: "I would not change places with any other candidate at the moment." Who did he think was the man to beat? Replied Stassen with a grin: "Mr. Truman...