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Philadelphia's slush permitted no record-smashing, but Princeton's Albin Rauch won the 400-meter hurdles in 53.3 sec., a time that would look good even under blue skies...
...Crimson is backing away from high pressure," he continued,"...a seizure of conscience has set in at Cambridge." No guilty feelings in this vicinity, Mr. C., we look on sports as part of a college education. But can you say as much for Stanford's alumni-supported athletic slush fund: the "Buck-of-the-Month Club...
...slush is yet dry on Winter's testament familiar sounds are oozing up from the Southland, the crack of a bat against the horsehide and the peck of a finger against the old Woodstock. Spring baseball is back. Radiant in their new sport shirts, the scribes are again squeezing the grapefruit league for every drop...
...honors at the 1945 Carnegie exhibition of U.S. painting. Three years ago, Guston turned his back on easy success, joined the abstractionist ranks. His latest exhibition in a Manhattan gallery features huge canvases thinly blotched with pale colors, and greyish ribbons of paint trailing, snail-like, over slush-hued backgrounds. His sketch for the exhibition catalogue, an apparently random doodle of short, jerky dashes, is a fair sample of the new Guston. His reason for the change: "I was unhappy...
...following day "Jumping Joe" Ferguson, Taft's defeated opponent, sauntered amiably into the chamber to talk about Republican slush funds. Ferguson sounded more like comic relief than one of the main characters. "I'm not casting any aspirations on the reporters around here," he malapropped during one explanation, "but those newspapers in Ohio are really Republican." Explaining his own defeat, Ferguson said: "The reason I got beat so bad was that the Democrats and the working people didn't go out to vote." As an afterthought, he added with unprecedented political candor: "Of course, if they...