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...precisely at this point that the Crimson's play turned sour. Brown's shooting was red-hot, and they were able to shave the Crimson margin to as little as six points in the last minute of play...
Died. Berton Braley, 83, self-styled Manhattan "versifier" who unabashedly wrote for loot, not laurels, over the years turned out something like 11,000 items, ranging from light verse for magazines to Burma-Shave jingles, and once (1913) even covered the World Series in verse for United Press; of cancer; in St. Petersburg, Fla. Braley insisted that he worked over the lowliest limerick "as though I were trying to write an epic," and, indeed, some were epics of their kind...
...away. Colonel Johnson said we could handle it. He parceled out firepower and called in air strikes. He hadn't slept for three days, but he never used a profane word." It was, however, the only occasion on which his battalion ever saw Johnson in need of a shave...
...cotton goods, its cotton-spinning industry has been declining steadily for a decade. Stepped-up international competition, notably from the U.S., Britain and West Germany, has cut Japan's share of the world market from 30% in 1955 to 22% last year. Cutthroat rivalry at home has helped shave profit margins from an average of 8% ten years ago to barely 1.4% today. All the while, the rapid rise of synthetic fibers has done much to dampen world demand for cottons...
...true that Princeton's record is more impressive than the Indians'. Princeton has won 16 straight, and hasn't really had a close shave all season. Last week they humbled a good Yale team, 31 to 6. Dartmouth, on the other hand, had a good deal of difficulty defeating both Yale and Penn...