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Next to the torrid Miss C., the hottest thing of the afternoon was the weather. Seventy five degrees brought sweat stains into plain sight after the first ten minutes of play and took a heavy toll of both team's avoirdupois...
...noon today New York City will be firmly in the grip of the season's most torrid heat wave--generated by the American Legion's Societe des Quarante et Huit Chevaux, official custodians of the huge quantity of fun and frolic that is to be showered on the convention of some 200,000 Legionnaires. Only blue-nosed New Yorkers--if such there be--will resent the audible expressions of good, clean fun, and by the time the last Legionnaire entrains for home, New York will have forgotten just who was making all the noise...
There was torrid talk about Labor having to seek a coalition with the Tories. People whispered of convulsions within the Labor Cabinet (Shinwell was about to be thrown to the dogs. Bevan was ready to move in where Bevin feared to tread). Cried Ernie Bevin: "My God, working men and women! This is the first Labor Government you've got.* Don't let it fall!" A gust of anti-Attlee anecdotes swirled up. Said one Labor minister: "If you told Attlee, 'Look here, sir, I've just put strychnine in your wife's coffee...
Preliminary intramural crew heats yesterday singled out Winthrop, Eliot, Leverett, and Lowell to compete tomorrow in the final inter-House regatta. Meanwhile, Leverett's golf team emerged victorious on the Lexington links, the baseball and softball marathons moved into their final week of torrid competition, and the House tennis torrid competition, and the House tennis tourney went into its third day on the Business School courts with the quarter finals coming up today...
Tony Lavelli's 32-point scoring spree against the Crimson basketball team enabled the Yale center to pass George Hanptfuhrer and three others and noize the lead in the torrid Eastern Intercollegiate League scoring race with a total of 175 points in 11 games...