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Outstanding in the New Jersey School's lineup is quarterback Frank Burns, passing star who is being boomed for All-Eastern recognition. Burns has been the spearhead in a Scarlet offensive game that has swept to four straight victories following an opening-day loss to Columbia...

Author: By Joseph BUNYAN (sports and Rutgers Targum), S | Title: Rutgers Battles Today with 1946's Aces: Passer Burns, Dancer Grimes | 11/1/1947 | See Source »

...Paris, a key executive committee of Britain, France, Italy, Norway, and Holland was designated yesterday to spearhead European reconstruction with the aid of four sub-groups...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Marshall Informs Governors More U.S. Support Required by Europe As Paris Conference Subdivides | 7/15/1947 | See Source »

They consider the irreducible minimum to be a ready, full-strength aerial spearhead of 70 groups (some 8,000 planes) able to carry the war to the enemy's homeland, blast his cities and industry, cut up his slow-moving land armies. Behind the spearhead: eleven fully equipped combat divisions (some 132,000 men) freed from routine chores and immediately available to seize advance bases and begin the clinching land assault. The total: an Army and Air Force of 1,070,000 men, supported in flank actions by the 500,000-man Navy and Marine Corps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: In the Balance | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

...farther, tossed 49 feet 6 inches in the 1942 Freshman Yale meet. The college record is 50 feet 6 3/4 inches, held by H. P. Mendel '40. Felton Garland and Jackson will all double in the discus. Elsewhere in the field events, more holdovers from the indoor season will spearhead the Crimson scoring thrust. Pete Harwood, Bill Lawrence, Owen Torrey and Tom Johnson have all proved their qualifications for the pole-vault, with Harwood up around 13 feet 6 inches, Lawrence and Torrey pushing 13 feet, and Johnson capable of 11 feet. Pete Garland and Gene Harrigan will take care...

Author: By Stephen N. Cady, | Title: Lining Them Up | 3/21/1947 | See Source »

...Peiping Headquarters of the Marshall mission, is tantamount to announcing that further American intervention will merely compromise their efforts. Pulling out now is only a tacit admission of what the Communists have claimed all along, that the U. S. troops were not to help in mediation, but to spearhead the Kuomintang "forces of reaction." The charge will be all the more difficult to meet because some elements within the Kuomintang themselves triumphantly voiced the same opinion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Eagle and the Dragon | 1/30/1947 | See Source »

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