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...opener at Dartmouth, 5 to 1. But Captain Normie Wood thinks the varsity will eventually have that punch. Right wing job Bray is still a little hampered by his wrist, broken halfway through last season. He has to keep it tightly taped, but has developed one of the best slap shots on the squad. Captain Wood at center brings up improved strong shots from his position on last year's second line. Dependable Dick Clasby will once again play left wing on the first line...

Author: By John J. Iselin, | Title: Injuries, Ineligibilities Hinder Squad | 12/8/1953 | See Source »

...result: Williams 68,793, Hetfield 66,796. Across the U.S. Williams' victory was widely analyzed as a slap at the Eisenhower Administration. Williams said he thought his biggest weapon was his pledge to carry on in the path of Eisenhower Republican Clifford Case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Word from Jersey | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

...Reilly's have accepted the art of Scollay Square in a proper spirit of clean fun. And Boston has been justly proud, in more tolerant times, to be known as the home of this nation's first legitimate theatre. In fact, the cavalier action of the police is a slap in the face of hospitality that reaches back to the stoning of British troops...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Goodneighbor Policy | 11/3/1953 | See Source »

...gown which, as she rose to leave after lunch, fell off her shoulders altogether. When the others wore the prescribed one-piece bathing suits, Miss Egypt appeared in a Bikini that must have been assembled under a microscope. "These other girls," she explained to the press, with a slap at her hips, "have nothing here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Global Decision | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

...slap the Mexican press when you say that it was too close to the game of Aleman and his cronies to chronicle much of it. Just what do you mean? That it was in jeopardy and therefore scared ? Shucks! Like yourself, the Mexican press isn't scared of anything this side of the grave . . . Probably the lack of the chronicles you miss is due simply to the fact that there was nothing of the sort to chronicle . . .Who was the editor who, not with the traditional blue pencil of his kind but with the rewrite man's typewriter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 5, 1953 | 10/5/1953 | See Source »

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