Word: winners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Perhaps," mused Pollster Sam Lubell this week, "I should hedge my election predictions." Then he added: "But in simple honesty, I can't." Lubell's major prediction: "President Dwight D. Eisenhower should prove a fairly easy winner in the voting...
...beauty queen will be selected from the dance floor at Leverett House this evening. According to Harvey Grasfield '57, member of the Dance Committee, the winner will not necessarily be a Radcliffe student, and her title will involve no modeling obligations...
...backs blasting out the yard age, they swamped the Irish 47-14. With Fullback John Herrnstein scoring three touchdowns, Michigan rolled to a 34-20 victory over stubborn Northwestern, established itself as a leading candidate for the Rose Bowl. (Michigan State is ineligible as last year's winner.) Penn State, throttling Ohio State's vaunted ground attack (which had averaged 333 yds. a game in victories over Nebraska, Stanford and Illinois), scored the upset of the week with a slim but well-earned 7-6 victory. Oklahoma, which had not been scored on in eight regular season games...
...Manhattan company to grant their ticket requests. For their three-day sales convention in December, one company started a month ago to track down 72 tickets for My Fair Lady, had to pay $22.50 apiece. Another company, which forgot to order World Series tickets awarded to a contest winner, put in an urgent call to its New York advertising agency to find four seats, got clipped $208 over the box-office price. As one adman explained: "We have a perfectly honest agent who gets our tickets at regular prices. We have very little trouble-just tip him around $250 each...
...minded and civilized than the Labor Prime Minister and, as it turns out, a shrewder tactician. Heckled for such a political about-face, Shaw insisted-in one of those prefaces of his which are more like second times at bat-that King and Prime Minister not only are not winner and loser, but are not even basic antagonists. "The conflict," Shaw asserts, "is not really between royalty and democracy. It is between both and plutocracy." King and Prime Minister are thus equally puppets, while it is Breakages, Ltd-England's super-industrialists-who actually rule...