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Captain Bob Gilmor, the only senior on the squad, makes 167 the Crimson's strongest division. Undefeated as a freshman, Gilmor has chalked up a record of 16 wins, four losses and two ties during his three years of varsity competition. He has speed, skill, aggressive-ness, and strength, a combination of attributes which makes an outstanding wrestler...
This easy familiarity with people stands in sharp contrast to the strain of intellectual austerity that moves his political behavior. His ability to inspire affection and confidence among his worker following--whose unions today give him his strongest support--dates from his student days at Oxford where he first became interested in Socialism. Gaitskell joined the strikers while most of his classmates reacted to the great Strike of 1926 by volunteering to serve as transport workers and special constables. Later, during the Depression, he gave adult education courses to Nottinghampshire miners for the Worker's Education Association...
...cage, and Thomas closed the door after her. Then he rushed with the baby to the zoo kitchen and removed the sac. He noticed that the baby was having difficulty breathing and began slapping her on the back. She caught her breath and lost it again. "I knew the strongest stimulant for respiration is carbon dioxide," Thomas said. "I started breathing into her mouth." He kept it up for 15 minutes. "I was all alone," he explains, "and knew that history was in the making, but I didn't have time to think about anything but keeping that baby...
...with the art of every other nation except France. Drawing depth and drama from the history it helps illustrate, it has reflected not European painting but American life-rough and smooth, tumultuous and diverse. And though it is a great river of many sources and many passing moods, its strongest single current throughout is a searching realism. One measure of Edward Hopper's importance: he is today the revered champion of that tradition...
Empire Building. Only last summer the company sacrificed the American Magazine (TIME, July 9), strongest of the three, in hopes of beefing up its weak sisters. Largely as a result of dividing American subscriptions, Collier's circulation climbed 9% (to 4,165,000) while the Companion gained 5% (to 4,225,000). But advertisers were leary. Collier's ran only 1,008 ad pages in 1956 v. 1,718 in 1951; in the same period, Companion advertising dropped from 945 pages to 544. Their losses turned a record $6,000,000 profit claimed by Crowell-Collier...