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Both players drew majors, but not before the Dartmouth trainer had cost his team a match penalty by interfering in the scrap. This gave Captain Lavalle his choice of which Dartmouth player to eject for the rest of the game. Joe Riley was forthwith dispatched and the Crimson took over, dominating the play and sinking three in two minutes...
...would shift into an L formation if he elected not to run from the T. He never used a spinner (one of the Crisler essentials) because he built his attack around the straight-ahead over power of Vinnie Moravec. When Moravec got hurt, it was too late to scrap the system. Here is the biggest single problem facing Valpey: in order to employ the razzic-dazzle, split-second timing offensive he knows so well, he must find a fullback who can spin and who can handle the ball slickly...
...walk last summer beside the great River Han. On the broad flats where U.S. Army trucks dump the city of Seoul's garbage, Ye stopped to watch a swarming tangle of noisy, ragged small fry clawing over the piled-up refuse. The urchins were looking for any scrap of coal or tin or paper that could possibly be sold. For a long time Ye watched them...
Despite soaring scrap prices, the steel industry had seldom been fatter. In 1947, U.S. Steel reported, it had netted $126.7 million, the biggest since 1929 ($197.6 million), and 43% above 1946. Three other steel companies (Republic, Youngstown, and Jones & Laughlin) made just about twice as much in 1947 as they had in 1946. Bethlehem Steel turned in a whopping profit of $51 million, the greatest in its history. For the first time in peace, its sales had also passed $1 billion...
Viscount Hall, First Lord of the Admiralty, had a sad announcement to make before the House of Lords. Five of His Majesty's oldest and most revered men-o'-war, once the symbols of Britain's might, had been ticketed for the scrap yards. Said Hall: "The First Sea Lord and I feel like two padres conducting the funeral service of a number of old friends...