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...player that makes Harvard's front wall weightier than usual is 210 pound George Hibbard, who has been shifted from left tackle to left guard in place of 180 pound Charley Gudaitis. Concerning the backfield, no one is quite sure who will start except Harlow himself...
...Rockne biography, its frequent newsreel shots of Notre Dame at football are filled with chronological inaccuracies such as showing the lateral pass as a potent Army offensive weapon in 1925, goalposts in the end zones in a game supposed to have taken place in 1913. In 1940 spectators with weightier matters on their minds may have a hard time taking seriously for an hour and thirty-eight minutes the Warners' solemn anxieties about the South Bend ball club...
According to the polls, Wendell Willkie last week seemed close to defeat. But a fact weightier than polls, sharper than experts, still gave him hope: this was 1940, when nothing was certain but the sunrise...
...editorial pages. Franklin D. Roosevelt was a caricaturist's "natural." But his cartoon character did not evolve overnight. At his nomination in 1932, top-flight Cartoonist "J. N. Ding" (Jay Norwood Darling) had already caught Roosevelt's cowcatcher chin and vaudeville grin. Added later were weightier jowls, up-jutting cigaret holder that make up the now-familiar Roosevelt caricature...
Said Editor Miner with a straight face: "He [Sullivan] said he had only a few minutes-it was nice he could spend them in our office." Said the Post-Dispatch, preoccupied with weightier matters (see p. 56 : nothing...