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...Passing had been the only questionable factor in the Spartan attack. Against Michigan, Quarterback Smith showed that he is a poised passer as well as a brilliant ball handler, and Michigan State had speed to spare in sophomore Halfbacks Dewey Lincoln and Sherman Lewis. The Spartans' traditionally tenacious "umbrella" defense has not given up a single touchdown in three games. But cautious Coach Duffy Daugherty is not yet counting on a trip to the Rose Bowl, picks Iowa and Ohio State as top contenders. He may be right; undefeated Iowa was ranked No. 1 in almost every preseason poll...
...pastime as old as baseball itself: in organized baseball's first recorded game, in 1846, a New York Nine player named Davis was fined 6? for cussing the ump. Umpires have been beaned by flying pop bottles, chased out of ballparks by angry fans, assaulted by umbrella-wielding ladies, and showered with dirt and obscenity by players and managers...
...form and classic restraint. Whitman tapped a gusher, and no one reading the letters can doubt that he knew just what he was doing. To a correspondent he gleefully quoted a derisive squib from a critic, which said that he had arrived in New York "carrying the blue cotton umbrella of the future...
...kind of preview of the Kingdom they expect momentarily, when 144,000 of them will run heaven and the rest will inherit a purged earth to enjoy the everlasting life. At second base a speaker's platform slowly revolved, surrounded by banks of flowers and five umbrella-shaded clusters of chairs for notables. For six days, Witness leaders expounded the faith over 192 loudspeakers, drenching every cranny of the stadium with inspirational sound. Most often at the microphone was Nathan Homer Knorr, 56, of Brooklyn, who is third president of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, official title...
...believed had been with a rebel band that burned his plantation. He led a pick-up mob of whites down Luanda's main street. The mob literally tore one man limb from limb, pitched the other screaming off a six-story roof to crash through the candy-striped umbrella of a sidewalk cafe. The police casually watched...