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...occasions offensively to shake their backs loose for touchdowns. The first score was made early in the opening period with Dick Coe carrying on a weak-side reverse, after a long punt by Greeley and consistent gains on the ground had brought Eliot to the Puritan 10 yard stripe. The Mastadons struck again in the fourth period when George Strout spurted through a gaping hole in the Winthrop line, then ambled 30 yards to score. Although unable to gain on the ground, the Puritans uncorked a flashy passing attack, which gave them their longest advances...
...Senin, who was built like a football player and might easily be mistaken for a junior vice president of the National City Bank, studied chemical engineering at Columbia in 1931. He wore impeccably cut blue pin-stripe suits-the best I saw in all Russia-smoked Lucky Strikes and talked with crisp, good-humored confidence. Since his job is the running of all industry in the Ukraine, it was hardly surprising that he suffered from stomach ulcers. When he was away for treatment at a sanatorium in the Caucasus, Khomyak had a good deal of difficulty in getting quick decisions...
...Clifford, the lawyer, comes from St. Louis, where he was "pretty well irresistible to juries." Handsome, young (39) Clark Clifford was commissioned a lieutenant (j.g.) in the Navy. He never went to sea, but he wound up two years later as naval aide to the President and a four-stripe captain, a feat which ordinarily takes Annapolis graduates around 20 years. Six weeks ago he became the President's special counsel, the job vacated by shrewd, veteran judge & lawyer Sam Rosenman. Everyone agrees that Clark Clifford, who is "perfectly devoted" to Harry Truman, has a way with Harry Truman...
...same breath: "Slovenes-unite with your brother Slavs in the new greater powerful Yugoslav fatherland," and "Italians-unite with the new greater international brotherhood of the proletariat-down with nationalism." He even designed a new Italian flag, with a red star in the center of the white stripe, to please the Italian Communists. But in Tito's Zone B, Italian Communists cannot display...
...educator in China, Dr. Stuart traveled the country far & wide, stayed aloof from China's politics, met and endeared himself to Chinese of every stripe. More important, he came to be well known and trusted by Chiang Kaishek, Madame Chiang, Premier T. V. Soong and Communist negotiator Chou En-lai (some of Communist Yenan's leaders are Yenching graduates...