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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another back that caught Coach Harlow's eye was Gordy Lyle, was also shone for Team B offensively. Lyle, who won a letter first two years ago as a Sophomore flash, has been out of the picture lately, but his showing yesterday indicated that he may see more action soon. Paul Perkins was the third running back for the second team, and his hard plunging made him a good prospect to back up Wayne Johnson at fullback...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hibbard, Cummings Back in Crimson Fold | 10/6/1942 | See Source »

...Nights in a Barroom" fall hardest where it should have shone brightest. The specialty numbers--especialty those of old-timer Vic Faust, a toothless Al Smith with a hangover--click beautifully. But the attempts of the rest of the cast to pile on the old-fashioned melodrama with a trowel fall pretty flat. They use restraint where hamming is called for; and they don't even give the villain-hissing audience a fighting chance to display its wares. A livelier paced direction, with more emphasis on the exists and entrances that give blood-and-thunder its special quality would have...

Author: By J. H. K., | Title: PLAYGOER | 8/26/1942 | See Source »

From his eyes there shone the bitterness brewed by the repeated jailings of himself and his family, the bruises left in his heart by the clubbings he and his aged mother suffered. He was beaten in a Lucknow demonstration against the Simon Commission in 1928. During a National Week demonstration in 1932 his mother was beaten and left unconscious on the side of the road near her home in Allahabad. She was dead now, and so were his father and his wife Kamala, all helped along to funeral pyres on the banks of the Ganges by their work in India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Nehru Never Wins | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

Keith, third marshal of the Senior Class, is the former president of the Council, and ex-Editorial Chairman of the CRIMSON, while Heiden, recently elected to the Permanent Class Committee, shone as a blocking back on the football team last fall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMES PRIZE WON BY KEITH, HEIDEN | 4/17/1942 | See Source »

...stubborn Russian troops in the fortress of Sevastopol, a convoy ran in supplies across the Black Sea. Meanwhile, in rear areas, tank engines were tuned, fuel moved forward, every day the sun shone brighter. And every day Russians and Germans, like swimmers fighting in a millrace, were swept closer to the battle that may decide the fate of Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Thrust from the Sea | 4/6/1942 | See Source »

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