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...their two previous encounters, the Freshmen have tallied 11 goals, downing Framingham High School 6 to 1, and trimming Mt. St. Charles Academy 5 to 1. For Belmont Hill, today's battle will be the first of the year, so the opposition shapes up as an unknown quantity...
Mica. India is the chief world source of high-grade mica splittings, indispensable in electrical equipment. The U.S. is using 8,000,000 lb. a year, practically all for defense. U.S. stocks are unknown...
James Laughlin IV is a sort of Lorenzo de' Medici. Scion of a steel mill family, he has centered his interest since graduating from Harvard in 1937 in sponsoring young, unknown poets and writers and giving them a chance to see their works in print. For some four years his annual anthology, "New Directions in Prose and Poetry," has contained some of the more interesting, if startling, contributions to modern literature. No ordinary publisher would accept them, for chain poems and their ilk are not designed as money makers. Laughlin can afford, if necessary, to take a loss...
...darkness toward Occupied France. Feeling the chilled air of winter seeping through the window sashes and around the drawn curtains of his car, the old Marshal doubtless shivered a little more when he wondered what sort of demands he would receive at the end of this journey to the unknown. Perhaps he knew just what he was prepared to concede. More likely he realized, as did the world, that from collaboration there is no return...
Selecting a name which corresponded to the maiden name of his wife from a New York telephone book, Mueller dispatched a letter which he hoped would, and which did, bring the affidavit necessary for U.S. entry from an unknown benefactor...