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Holy Cross will be a slight underdog when it meets the Crimson golfers today at the Belmont Country Club. The match is the first between Harvard and the Crusaders in several years...
...underdog Crimson tennis team which wasn't supposed to take more than a set or two all afternoon from Princeton's power-laden squad made an inspired fight of it here on Saturday. The Tigers won, 7 to 2, but the outcome of the match was in doubt until the final minutes of play...
...Crimson goes into the match the underdog, as the Tigers this year boast one of the most powerful teams in the country. Gil Bogley, National Junior Champion, will probably play number one for the Orange and Black squad of nationally ranked amateurs...
Nevertheless, by last week underdog Argosy was barking on True's trail, as if it were about to bite. Argosy Editor Jerry Mason, 36, claimed that his January issue had topped the 1,000,000 mark in sales (the guarantee: 750,000). Like True, Argosy was once a pulp, which boasted such bylines as Edgar Rice Burroughs and H. Rider Haggard; but its fortunes and circulation had ebbed. Then Popular Publications took over, turned it into a slick, and it started up. Last April, Mason, onetime associate editor of the Sunday supplement This Week, moved in. He borrowed some...
...work mates, even the brain-deadening duties of his distasteful job were of vast interest to him. When the scene shifts to England, he is just as intently curious about flophouses, tramp argot and the personal histories of his down-and-out pals. There is the concern for the underdog and the compassion without sentimentality that soon became Orwell trademarks...