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Under Lilienthal and the acting chairmanship of Pike, AEC had withstood political pressures fairly well, worked as the ally rather than the captive of McMahon's congressional committee. Now it might find its independence harder to keep...
...polo team scored four goals in the first two chukkers, then withstood a second-half Williams rally to trip the Ephmen, 4 to 2, in a game at Pittsfield Saturday. Morgie Davis, hard-riding number three man, led the Crimson with two tallies. Sandy and Tom Calhoun each scored once...
Agar's political study takes its impetus from the Revolution and the formation of the Constitution (which he interprets politically as Beard does economically). He then goes on to trace the development of a second, "unwritten" constitution-a compound of political compromises and "bargains" which withstood every problem of national life in the nineteenth century but one, the Civil...
...preparing to sing a performance of Peter Ibbetson in Detroit when the phone call came: Met Manager Herbert Witherspoon had just fallen dead in his office, and the trustees wanted Johnson to succeed him. It was a job he never regretted taking. In 15 years, Manager Johnson had withstood roars of rage from all sides; but even his bitterest critics would admit that, when the books of the Johnson era were closed this May, there would be more written in black than in red. He had taken over a depression-ridden opera company and kept it going through hard times...
...proper Bostonians withstood the shock well. So did Lever's astounded office workers. Much less pleased were the seven Manhattan advertising agencies who will soon have one of their most important clients camping right on their doorstep. Said Chuck Luckman with his best Pepsodent smile: "We're going to drive them like hell...