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...seem agreed that it takes a certain amount of talent to get on the U. S. Olympic team, for the competition is the stiffest this country can produce since all get a chance to enter. In the past, Olympic representatives have come mainly from the athletic clubs and the post-college ranks, with only a few from colleges making the grade. But 1948 may be different; at least athletes along the Charles hope to make it so. Olympic fever, a malady unknown for many year, has reappeared in the sports world...
After three weeks the court-martial had found Chief Hirshberg not guilty of informing against the three prisoners who planned to escape, not guilty of hitting four of his accusers, but guilty of beating two of them. Last week, it gave him just about the stiffest sentence it could: ten months in the Navy's Retraining Command (correction school) at Norfolk, Va., to be followed by dishonorable discharge...
...Stiffest competition will probably come from Manhattan, Penn State, Harvard, Navy, Rhode Island State Army, and Brown. The Crimson was fourth in the winter championships...
...Bilbo report was one of the stiffest condemnations of a Senator by his colleagues ever to be submitted to the upper house. Despite the evasions, gags and protestations of "The Man" and of pro-Bilbo witnesses during the seven-day hearing, the committee had found Bilbo guilty of accepting money or gratuities from at least half a dozen war contractors. "The donation or ... solicitation of political contributions from Government contractors," said the committee coldly, ". . . is prohibited by a federal criminal statute...
Reports from the outlying precincts indicate that Bradley Tech, with supposedly the best basketball team in the college's history, will provide the stiffest opposition for the Crimson. Western Reserve hasn't fared too well, and little is known about Indiana Central's progress. Westminster made a disastrous visit to Madison Square Garden a week ago, when C.C.N.Y. gave the Pittsburghers a thirty-point thrashing; but in years past the Smoky City delegation has produced a traditionally strong quintet...