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Wilson has only two starters and half the ten-man squad back, but among them are the two key players who led the remarkable late season comeback--Dick Woolston and George Harrington. They combined to infuse the team with new vitality and aggressiveness to snap a six-game losing streak and begin a drive which came within a few seconds of downing league champion Yale in the season's finale...

Author: By John A. Rava, | Title: Varsity Five Expects A Successful Season | 11/30/1957 | See Source »

Very good humor now, smiling at me, smiling aside at Bulganin, talking fast as if he had the answer ready. Laughs, looking at me. Snap, snap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: COCKTAIL DIPLOMACY | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

...Someone in press behind says "attaboy." Nikita is talking to me, also sort of for benefit of Bulganin, who is leaning in, enjoying it all. We are all pushed together close. Nikita's eyes all crinkled up, he looks like real happy peasant. Holds hand up in protest. Snap, snap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: COCKTAIL DIPLOMACY | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

...aria and Negro spirituals-and more than fulfilled the sponsoring State Department's hopes that she would reap good will for the U.S. along with the applause. Last week Singer Anderson reached New Delhi and learned that she was already a sellout attraction. Music lovers had scrambled to snap up the 1,200 available tickets that filled New Delhi's biggest concert hall to capacity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 25, 1957 | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

...that dog Kovacs. a fellow with a suspicious nature and an investigative turn of mind, soon begins to sniff the wind. "They're up to something!" he mutters. "I can smell it! I can taste it!" Day after day his spies report-nothing. Day after day, in snap inspections, he finds-nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 25, 1957 | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

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