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Ever since 1903 when an upstart University of Minnesota team, coached by Yaleman Henry L. Williams, startled a select circle of U.S. football fans by holding Fielding H. Yost's famed point-a-minute Michigan team to a 6-to-6 tie, Minnesota and Michigan have furnished the No. 1 collegiate rivalry of the Midwest: the struggle for the Little Brown Jug that served as a water jug that day.* Through the decades Minnesota, winner of eleven Big Ten titles, became famed for its powerful lines that looked-to opposing teams-like a nightmare of Primo Cameras; Michigan, winner...
...factory on 1,000 acres of land at Hanley. He became famous for his cream-colored earthenware (called ''Queen's Ware" for George Ill's Charlotte), was respected for improving turnpike roads, founding schools and chapels, was hated for espousing the cause of the upstart American colonies. Bit by bit the Wedgwoods disposed of their land, until a bare five-acre plot on which the plant still stands was jostled by other potteries, mines, factories. Neighbors' smoke marred the fine finish of glazed Wedgwood ware; sapping shafts of a nearby coal mine made Wedgwood ovens...
...have noticed no follow-up story on this matter, and wonder if this unjust condition is being duly righted, or whether the powers that be have managed to squash the upstart and his fearless judge...
Within a year, Transradio news was being barked over more than 90 stations. Soon it was clear that the upstart agency had upset the plans of the publishers and press associations to limit news broadcasting. U. P. and I. N. S. decided to sell their news to commercial radio sponsors; within A. P., agitation for a similar plan was begun...
...Pearls of the Crown (Serge Sandberg) behaves oddly by: 1) speaking in three languages, 2) popping up in unexpected places all over the face of the world, and 3) flitting back & forth over the last four centuries with the fervor of a flea at a dog show. More upstart than experiment, Pearls of the Crown is a capricious use of cinema's ample elbow room for the somersaulting imagination and talents of 53-year-old French Stagecrafter Sacha Guitry, who wrote its story, directed it and played four of its leading parts...