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...Talent for Forgery. Like many a romantic swashbuckler of fiction, Ches began his life in gentler circumstances-as a brilliant, somewhat slack-jawed mother's boy named John Donald Merrett. His doting mother, whose less doting husband had skipped out of the family circle, sent him to a fine public school, and went herself to Scotland to tend his needs when he entered Edinburgh University. Each night in the privacy of their quarters, Donald practiced the talent that led to his first serious trouble-forging his mother's name. He soon became expert enough to drain her meager...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Not Proven | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

After the half, Captain Pete Geithner, playing with a tapped leg, and Toby Julian, Green coach Doggy Julian's son, took up the slack. Geithner collected ten of his 12 points in the second half, and Julian added seven important points in the last quarter...

Author: By Jack Rosenthal, | Title: Green Stops Varsity, 68-59, As Fairley Controls Boards | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

Dunster was undefeated in B league play last semester, but will feel the loss of Bob Walser, who broke his ankle just before exams. Six foot four inch Harold Collard and five foot eight inch Don Spenser will have to take up the slack, as Kirkland, 5 and 2, will try to catch...

Author: By Stephen L.seftenberg, | Title: Dunster May Win Cup Again As Puritans Remain Second | 2/12/1954 | See Source »

Navy clung to its slim lead in the second half despite an alert Crimson defense that successfully bottled up Lange and Clune. Guards Doral Sandlin and Larry Wigle7 took up the slack for the visitors with a combination of set shots and free throws...

Author: By Stephen L. Seftenberg, | Title: Middies Beat Varsity Five In Tight Blockhouse Clash | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

...small, at least in the near future; only a fraction of the 17 million Americans who work in manufacturing industries are in any immediate danger of losing their jobs to machines. And the business of making and servicing the new machines themselves would take up most of the slack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDUSTRY: Automatic Factories | 1/18/1954 | See Source »

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