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...victory over Yale in the tilt last Friday knocked the otherwise undefeated Yale team out of the running for the Ivy League championship...
...typical introvert. Eisenhower a typical extrovert; in times of crisis, American voters generally favor the introvert. ¶In the fall edition of the magazine Forecast, Technical Editor Irys Vorel wrote that the stars indicate an Eisenhower victory. Said Editor Vorel: "We feel the Libra-scales are going to tilt a little wee bit toward the Eisenhower side and that ... he's going to win by a nose." ¶Onetime (1924) Democratic candidate for President John W. Davis, who declared for Willkie in 1940, joined up with Democrats for Eisenhower because "corruption . . . carelessness, complacency and favoritism in Government circles demand...
...Washington game on October 11. Dunster's dining hall will turn dance dance floor. Winthrop will take over for the Colgate game on October 18, and again for the Davison tilt on November...
Britain's Sir Alan Patrick Herbert, quixotic wit and author, does not believe that all marriages are made in heaven. In his novel Holy Deadlock, he charged full tilt into Britain's archaic divorce laws; after he got into Parliament, he pushed through the Matrimonial Causes Act in 1937, the first piece of divorce-reform legislation in 81 years. In the fight over that bill, some of Herbert's most strenuous opposition came from a conservative faction in the Church of England. Last week they were at it again, this time on the issue of Anthony Eden...
There is Churchill, "the naughtiest little boy in the whole world," whose instructors could only keep him quiet by racing him around full tilt all through recesses. There is Churchill, the young subaltern in India, flashing a wicked polo style "like a man thrashing at a cobra with a riding crop." There is Churchill, the captured war correspondent, breaking out of a Boer prison camp with four chocolate bars, and trekking 300 miles to the British lines and the world's headlines. There is Churchill the Conservative and Churchill the Liberal, and Churchill the World War I battalion commander...