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...games were marked by errors afield and heavy hitting at the plate...
Yale had to go farther afield for a football coach to replace Howie Odell, who quit for more money at the University of Washington. The Eli choice: able, 300-lb. Herman Hickman, 36, the man behind the Army lines. As Earl Blaik's assistant, Tennessee-born Hickman was as proud as a lion tamer of his viciously charging cadet lines (he called them affectionately "Mah Rowdies...
...pick & shovel corps of science toils far afield, probing the earth for traces of vanished animals, men and civilizations. Recent doings of the diggers...
When future historians investigate the culture of the early 20th Century, they will look farther afield than the newspapers; magazines and books also tell the human news of their day. Among the files the historians will consult will be the little magazines-and one of them will doubtless be Chicago's slim Poetry: a Magazine of Verse. Last week, in a special 72-page number marking its 35 years of life, Poetry took a historical look at itself...
...meek at the plate as it was potent afield and on the mound, the Varsity baseball team dropped one-run decisions to Pennsylvania and Princeton at the Nassau diamond Saturday, tumbling from first to fourth place in the Ivy League in the process...