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...definitely a man to watch in the impending tussle. A slow starter in 1946, Grimsley caught fire against the Crimson last year and danced through the Crimson defenses for both tallies. The halfback flash has had another disappointing start on his current campaign, but he turned in a top-flight exhibition against Lehigh on Saturday and may shine for the Scarlet against their New England foes once more...

Author: By Joseph BUNYAN (sports and Rutgers Targum), S | Title: Rutgers Battles Today with 1946's Aces: Passer Burns, Dancer Grimes | 11/1/1947 | See Source »

Privately, top-flight officials admitted that restricting imports would be a form of economic nationalism and a bar to the freer, multilateral trade that Canada seeks for the long haul. "It's shocking-horrible," said one, "but we're doing it only as a last resort and we're going to make it as temporary as we can. Meanwhile, we aren't headed for anything like British austerity. We'll cut down, but we'll still get by and have a good time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: EXTERNAL AFFAIRS: We'll Get By' | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

...years after its original release Samuel Goldwyn's personal prize package looks pretty much the same: it is still elegant extravaganza bursting with top-flight specialty entertainment. The film has a superstructure of Gershwin music (last score before the composer's death); it has as well the minty savor of screen spectacles in the Thirties which sticky current jobs somehow cannot boast...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 5/22/1947 | See Source »

Although they scored one-sided victories over M.I.T. and Tufts in their first two meets, Varsity wrestling coach Chief Boston is quick to point out that his wrestlers are inexperienced and have not yet met any top-flight opposition. "When we start meeting the colleges with consistently good past records, we'll be able to tell how good we are," Chief asserted yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrestling Squads Hit Hardest Tests Early This Term | 1/30/1947 | See Source »

With the United States Davis Cup squad in Australia, the remaining sixteen top men in the country including the two-handed racquet-wielder Pancho Segura, Bob Falkenburg, Seymour Greenberg, and Jack Tuero, are being invited to this meet. Its top-flight competition will not be new to Backe who ranked eighth nationally among Juniors in 1942 and in the same year advanced to the Sugar Bowl quarter-finals where he bowed to Billy Talbert only after forcing the doubles star to an extra...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Enters Tennis Matches In New Orleans | 12/21/1946 | See Source »

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