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Personnel departments place most of the blame on the draft for the recent slack in interested college graduates. Those not being drafted want to go on to graduate schools to avoid having to serve and to complete as much education as possible...

Author: By John J. Iselin, | Title: Retailing: Harrowing, Hustling, and Expanding | 3/27/1953 | See Source »

...somewhat wilted plot manages to take on an unaccustomed bloom in Fritz Lang's direction and the acting of an adept cast. Director Lang tells his story mostly with the camera, and gives the picture a brisk pace that helps conceal its slack spots. Anne Baxter makes a thoroughly attractive murder suspect, and Richard Conte as the newsman is such a demon columnist that he apparently never even has to bother to write a column...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 23, 1953 | 3/23/1953 | See Source »

...yard individual medley--Won by Mayers, Springfield; 2, Pray, Amherst; 3, Swanson, Cornell; 4, Slack, Navy; 5, Joslyn, Y. Time...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: Yale Swimmers Star in Final Easterns Session | 3/23/1953 | See Source »

...yard freestyle relay--won by Yale (Schaeffer, Joslyn, Chamberlain, Sheff), 3:28.9; 2, Dartmouth (Heyn, Mullins, Luker, Glover), 3:33; 3, Harvard (Huebsch, Egan, Rapperport, Hedberg), 3:33.7; 4, Navy (Burr, Rindahl, Gray, Slack), 3:34.4; 5, Cornell (Delaplane, Swanson, Ord, Olt), 3:36.1.The Crimson's PETE DILLINGHAM, defending one-meter diving champion, finished second behind Yale star Kenny Welch by seven points...

Author: By Ronald P. Kriss, | Title: Yale Swim Sweep Rolls On; Crimson 2nd in Team Score | 3/21/1953 | See Source »

...sailors' other victory came in the 150-yard individual medley, with Paul Slack defeating Charlie Egan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrestlers, Five Lose; Swimmers Salvage Victory | 2/9/1953 | See Source »

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