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Seesawing continued when the final tallies of the dive showed Bob Aaron and Tom Drohan superior to Hanover springboard entries, and the Crimson setting the pace...
Because Bulgaria was a poor guesser, and lined up with Germany in two world wars, it has become more of a Russian springboard than a crossroads. Last week Great Britain tacitly acknowledged Bulgaria's new alignment: London recognized (although Washington did not) the Communist-dominated government of oldtime Comintern Boss Georgi Dimitrov...
...biggest newspaper in New Hampshire is neither very big nor very famous. But newsmen know the Manchester evening Leader (circ. 20,000) and its morning-after edition, the Union (25,000), as the springboard from which the late Frank Knox bounded to the big time and the Chicago Daily News. Prim and profitable, the Leader has never bothered to put out a Sunday paper, has been content to let Boston dailies grab off most of the morning circulation in town...
Bernard Kelly, diving mentor, is sure that he'll "have some surprises by next March 8" when the Yalies visit the pool, in the person of Tom Drohan, best of the Crimson's springboard staff. He added that Bob Aaron is shaping up well, and that Pate Stephens, although leaving in a few weeks for Greece, will be a valuable asset when he returns to College minus his v-12 uniform in February...
With this as a springboard, Elliott-who admitted that he was at the conference solely as "errand boy and drink mixer"-used the rest of his article to damn the British on general principles, Churchill "for his anti-Russian stand," "Washington cocktail-party gossipers" for predicting...