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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cleveland, newspapers and department stores shut up shop, steel plants and hundreds of other industrial works closed down; in Akron, Youngstown and Morgantown, W. Va., thousands of automobiles, trucks, cabs, buses and police cars were stalled inextricably. National Guardsmen patrolled Cleveland to prevent looting and used Sherman tanks to tow stalled trucks and cars from the drifts...
Vern Drehmel added a kick to his 11 previous scores (12. counting a disputed Princeton goal) to put the visitors ahead by tow in the second period. The first there came when Captain Ted Welf out in from left wing and slimed in a rebound on a blocked shot of Drehmel...
Although this is Jordan's freshman year with the Crimson, he is an old gridiron rival of Caldwell. Prior to the war the tow coaches opposed each other in the Little Three when Jordan was at Amherst and Caldwell at Williams. When his competition ended in 1942 Jordan had a six to five edge over his rival. In the final contest, his undefeated eleven smeared Caldwell's clean slate, which included a win over Princeton...
...Stone, past 50, discovers that her life is slipping away. She has been a successful actress and great beauty; now, after a ludicrous stab at playing Juliet, she is through with the stage and, even worse, aware that her beauty is dead. Lonely and anxious, she is taken in tow by a ravenous old contessa who supplies her with "beautiful" young men as escorts. Mrs. Stone, good American that she is, pays them as expected but politely declines their ultimate services. But when she meets Paolo, a gigolo with the face of an angel and the soul...
Warden is a rugged 184-pounder who has won tow varsity letters as a reserve halfback. He is a competent blocker, and thus far has proven to be the best broken field runner...