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Tomorrow's 7:45 contest at Penn will once again find the visitors the underdog, as Penn will seek to avenge its January loss to the Crimson. The Quakers, now fourth in the Ivy League with a 4-3 record, are still in contention for the title, but cannot afford to lose more than one more game, if that many...
...Underdog's Day. The main target of both Stevenson and Kefauver, however, was the annual convention of the California Democratic Council at Fresno at week's end. The council, made up of 450 Democratic clubs all over the state, is the most important Democratic organization in California. An overwhelming majority of the 3,000 delegates and alternates was believed to be for Stevenson. His strategists had even urged the powers in the council not to endorse Stevenson publicly, because they feared that would only add fuel to Kefauver's "boss" charge...
When the speeches were over, reporters totted up, and with some surprise found that Estes Kefauver's ad-libbing had been interrupted 43 times by applause, cheers and stomping, while Stevenson's speech had been interrupted only 23 times by applause and laughter. They concluded that the underdog from Tennessee had done better than anyone had expected him to do-and that Adlai, nonetheless, was still ahead...
...Underdog Snarl. Most of Weill's early opera music was the song of Berlin between the wars, the city that Christopher Isherwood wrote about in the Berlin Stories-starvation side by side with luxury, Nazi and Communist bullyboys in the streets, cynicism as heavy as the makeup on the faces of the omnipresent prostitutes. The Threepenny Opera echoed that city. Vaguely based on John Gay's 18th century original, the German libretto by Poet Bert Brecht (now a propaganda wheel in East Germany) had a vicious underdog snarl ("First fill our bellies, then talk morality") and magnificent, vulgar...
Crimson chances for a win in one of these games are rather nebulous. On the record, the home team will be the underdog in each encounter...