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Averting the Gaze. Under the reign of the present King's grandfather, King Abdullah, that stream had been kept under a measure of control. "I recollect so well one evening," Glubb recalls in an affectionate sidelight, "when King Abdullah was visited by a deputation of venerable-Moslem religious leaders and began to question them on religious subjects. 'Is it lawful to look at a pretty girl if you meet her on the street?' inquired His Majesty...
...interesting sidelight in the league tabulations is the fact that although Flynn was the most effective goalie in the league, allowing only 11 goals in his eight games, Scherer walked off with the honors. The Yale goalie allowed 13 goals in eight games...
Miller was in Seattle when the Senate censured the president on April 7, and he reports that professors who were fighting Schmitz were jubilant over their victory. An interesting sidelight on the voting is that the 56 members of the senate who condemned Schmitz were largely from the sciences and the humanities, while the 40 who supported the president's ban on Oppenheimer were generally members of the faculties of engineering, education, forestry...
Rider's Percy Belvin set the British mark of 2:27.8 at the Empire Games in Australia, but Leonard Spence, who swam on the U.S. Olympic team in 1936, set the world record in 2:25 flat. As a sidelight, Brooks also coached Elsie Petri, the girl who held the women's world 500 and 600-yard breaststroke marks...
...Sidelight interest will center on the individual performances of Cornell's Jack Rosenbaum and the varsity's Hal Gerry, one-two finishers in the Heptagonals. Last year's Eastern champion, Jim Olive of Army, could finish no better than 12th in this national meet. The Army team, however, which led the Eastern teams, finished second in the IC4A standings...