Word: underdogs
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...Cornell, all-American end Brud Holland et al, is rather glum. It is glum enough to realize that they soundly whipped a really topnotch Colgate team, glummer still when you realize that Cornell will outweigh Harvard 21 pounds to a man in the backfield. Still, Harvard is a better underdog than top-dog; that has been proved often...
...Chamberlain had appealed to Adolf Hitler, and agreed to the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia, after Czechoslovakia made a gesture of yielding and then prepared to fight, popular disapproval of Dictator Hitler (which Mr. Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull had helped to generate), and sympathy for Czechoslovakia as the innocent underdog, underwent a transformation. Nobody wanted the U. S. to go to war, but many were already cheering, "Go to it, Czechoslovakia!'' At pro-Czech mass meetings this feeling welled up. Pacifists like Thomas Mann and "realists" like Columnist Dorothy Thompson were that very day whipping it up. Episcopal...
...underdog, Champion Ambers in the early rounds did nothing to raise his reputation. Under a tattoo of blinding punches he crumpled to the canvas at the end of the fifth round. Saved by the bell, he came out for the sixth only to be knocked down again. But at the count of 8, just as the Garden spectators and millions of radio listeners were mentally collecting their bets, Underdog Ambers clambered to his feet...
...Underdog Kainrath, Chicago team captain and a violinist in his spare time, did not let his townsmen down. With grim determination, he made the bantamweight match the most exciting of the evening. Ducking Sergo's wild swings and peppering him with well-timed punches and counterpunches, Chicago's Kainrath clearly won all three rounds...
Jimmy Marshall is the son of the late, great Louis Marshall, Jewish lawyer and philanthropist. He went to the Columbia School of Journalism, wrote a novel, Ordeal by Glory, married Novelist Lenore K. Guinzburg, eventually became a lawyer. A congenital battler for the underdog, he defended Southern Negroes before the U. S. Supreme Court, plunged into many a liberal cause. He also played Republican politics in Manhattan, where his fellow politicians lifted eyebrows at his radicalism...