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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lowell followed its usual give-them-a-big-lead-and-then-pull-the string procedure with Kirkland. They played a casual first period, shooting seldom and with little accuracy, guarding lackadaisically, while the Deacons amassed a seemingly unbeatable lead of 14 points, 20 to 6, on the pivot shots and rebounds of Pat McCormick and the field work and set shooting of John Pankey...
...maintain that the 80th Congress charged headlong into the millennium. 1946-48 represent years in which America could consolidate her position. The proliferation of government agenefes, bureaus, corporations, departments, etc. since 1932 alarms even Democrats--yet screams of anguish arise (from the CRIMSON) when a year passes without the usual bales of half-baked legislation. The "Republican hiatus" represents nothing more reactionary than a pause to think--but thinking seems to be out of style when government is conducted on sales slogans--"New Deal," "fair deal," "gluttons of privilege,"--political programs retailed in the same fashion as cigarettes and soap...
...Quiet." Speaking at a mass meeting of Yenching students, the commissar said Chinese Reds desired friendly relations with all foreign countries, including the U.S., and eventually hope to be admitted into the United Nations. The speech avoided all the usual attacks on "American imperialism." A few days later the same commissar visited neighboring Tsinghua University, a Chinese government institution, and made the same professions of Communist respectability. The fact that his first concern had been for American-endowed Yenching was not lost on the courtesy-sensitive Chinese...
General Peyton C. March, bearded Army Chief of Staff in World War I, reached a spry 84 in Washington, passed up his usual birthday press conference to spend the whole day with the four generations of his family who came to call...
...Blacksmith's Son. Except for the usual pride in being a Texan, Ben Hogan had little to start out with. He was the son of Chester Hogan, the town blacksmith in Dublin, Tex. It was cattle country and most of Blacksmith Hogan's business was shoeing cow ponies. A silent, left-handed runt of a kid, Ben learned how to ride and to fight with his fists...