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Their testing came in December, 1951, when nine-year-old Gabrielle, "a long-legged, sun-kissed little girl, full of lively, irrepressible spirits," went to bed with a stomachache. Slowly, the symptoms multiplied: vomiting, difficulty in breathing, sharper attacks of pain followed by extreme lassitude. The doctor thought it was a virus infection. Another doctor diagnosed infectious hepatitis. Stomach X-rays suggested that a small tumor might be to blame. Nothing to worry about, said the doctors, but they advised an operation...
...Harvard line, the best performing last week's Princeton win. Both passing element this year, was really solid in and shooting were sharper than ever before. The insertion of captain Grey Hodnett at center half has bolstered the midfielders defensively, while adding hustle to the center line...
...Sharper Needles. Was it true that Adlai Stevenson, with his end-the-draft and stop-H-bomb-tests appeals, had beat the G.O.P. to a similar campaign punch? Said Ike: "You are telling me things about my Administration that I have never heard of. and I am quite sure no one has come up and suggested to me that we eliminate the draft . . . Now I tell you frankly I have said my last words on these subjects...
Toward the end of the conference, the political needles got sharper. Did Ike believe that some G.O.P. Senators (Wisconsin's McCarthy, Indiana's Jenner, Nevada's Malone) "fit in with your picture of the new Republican Party?" Replied Ike: "There are no national parties in the United States. There are 48 state parties . . . they are the ones that determine the people that belong to those parties. There is nothing I can do to say that someone is not a Republican. The most I can say is that in many things they do not agree with me. Therefore...
...nearly as good as the teams the Crimson will be facing in the Ivy League, and a sharper performance must be forthcoming if the team is to approach last year's record, or even to get past its two games next week...