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Upon the capable shoulders of Junior Charley Spreyer rests the bulk of Crimson hopes. He has been credited with inspired performances in the Penn and Brown games, carrying Harvard over the top with him. Actually, it may be that Spreyer was just hitting his real stride in those last two games. Sickness and injuries have retarded his progress all year. In 1939 he "arrived" in the Army game, but this year it took a bit longer. Now he is in good shape and ready for the effort of his career. At least, that is one way to look at Charley...
...Hampton Institute, in whose choir her voice began. This season Dorothy Maynor has engagements in 27 States, is making two big cross-country tours. Boxofficially she is not yet the peer of big-voiced Contralto Marian Anderson, who sells out Carnegie Hall. But Dorothy Maynor is just hitting her stride...
Burwell was nosed out of first place honors in the Varsity meet by Crusader Francis Kelley, a sophomore, who finished a stride ahead of the Crimson leader in 29:17.6. A flurry of Crimson harriers finished hot on the heels of the two leaders, with Bob Jay, Joe McLoughlin, John Sopka and Kay Rogers crossing the line in that order. Joe Scott and Bob Nichols, who finished eighth and ninth, were the only other Mikkolamen among the first...
...Miniver takes even the war in her light, brisk stride. She begins to write about "back to normal." "Back to normal. No, thought Mrs. Miniver, standing by the window and looking out into the square, they weren't quite back to normal, and never would be; none of them...
...which horses parade up the track in double file, turn and trot (or pace) down to the starting line in their lot-drawn post positions. Sometimes they make ten or 15 false starts before they all go over the line "on their gait" (without breaking stride...