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...play with a minute left to go in the half changed the whole tenor of the came. Princeton had executed a screen pass play with spectacular success and Crimson quarterback Gil O'Neil had elected to try the same. But the Tiger's defensive guard Vie Bihl smelled the play coming because no Harvard lineman attempted to block...
Crimson sailors will meet eight of the top New England teams on the Charles today and tomorrow, to vie for the Leonard Munn Fowle Trophy and the New England Team Racing Championship...
Twelve 'Cliffe dorms will vie for the silver cup at 8:15 p.m. the evening of October 23 when the annual song contest takes place...
What is the explanation? For one thing, the Canadian government eagerly encourages U.S. capital. Provincial governments vie with each other in offering attractive tax concessions. Canada's labor force is first-rate, its wage scales are lower, its raw materials often cheaper, its markets growing. Most important, however, U.S. business has recognized that Canada is still a great industrial frontier. Says General Motors President Charles E. Wilson (whose company is currently spending $30 million to expand its Canadian operations): "This is a vast storehouse of mineral and agricultural wealth waiting for further development . . . G.M. is bullish on Canada...
Most of the credit for the almost startling success of the film goes to director David Loan and his cast. "Oliver Twist" contains far better character acting than American audiences are accustomed to seeing. One reason for this high standard set by even the bit players is the Old Vie experience of many of them. John Howard Davies, as "the boy who asked for more," is far, far removed from our Dean Stock-wells. The difference is that he is an actor, not merely a cute but insipid child. Davies' performance is beautifully modulated to show Oliver's timid...