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Well-cast as a dumb, sleepy, semi-inhibited sophomore named Bradislaus ("Boley") Bolenciewcsz, Oakie mugs Clayton College to a national championship in a wacky welter of song & dance, romance and slapstick. With the greatest of ease he polishes off Yale, 82-to-0; Notre Dame, 6-to-5; Minnesota, 27-to-0. He beats Notre Dame with a last-minute touchdown when someone capitalizes on his fear of floods by yelling, "The dam has burst!" - frightening him the length of the field...
...have doubtless heard about the sedition and conspiracy trial of CIO local 544 of the Motor Transport and Allied Workers Union in Minneapolis. Because this is a trial for conspiracy, because it reminds one very forcibly of unpleasant labor trials in the last war, and because of the confusing welter of sensational press comment, the Liberal Union wishes to draw attention to the elementary facts of the case...
...week there was no mistaking Robert Jackson's elation. Chief reservation about him was that (as his intemperate campaign speeches revealed) he lacked the judicial temperament. A Democrat, a mild Wilsonian radical, Robert Jackson was the foremost legal strategist of the New Deal, who had carried out a welter of partisan tasks for the President. But it was agreed that he was mellowing, and it was considered likely that the Court would have as much influence on him as he had on it. Senator Byrnes, an able parliamentarian, a remarkably effective Senate leader, a supporter-but not invariably...
Against the Eli Freshman team will be pitted the following Yardlings: Al Rockwood, Bob Sheels, and George Wilbur in the foils; Mike Olmsted, Rush Welter, and Bob Zaugg in the epee; and Dick MacNeal, Harold Cooledge, and Al Dege or Manford Holman in the saber...
Until Hitler could make his preparations for taking Bulgaria without a fight, his advance army of psychological sappers continued busily undermining, camouflaging, sending up trial rumors and tentative untruths, paving the way for a Blitzkrieg in the spring just as they did in the Lowlands in 1940. Such a welter of conflicting reports was abroad in the Balkans last week that the Nazis were actually surprised. "It's a splendid fog," said a happy Berlin spokesman, "and others made...