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...South Carolina, it is unpardonable for a red-blooded citizen to be neutral on Big Thursday. On that momentous day, by decree of state law and with the State Fair as a backdrop, Clemson College (enrollment 3,200) fights it out on the football field with the University of South Carolina (enrollment 4,000). As usual last week, schools closed down and politicians scurried back from Washington as citizens began working themselves into the mood for the 47th annual battle...
...Runner. Strom Thurmond has been running for something all his life. At first he ran for exercise, trotting around his father's farm in Edgefield, S.C., 54 miles from Columbia. When he went to Clemson Agricultural College he ran on the college cross-country team. He was a determined student who overcame a speech impediment by reading slowly for an hour every afternoon to a patient professor. Once his classmates threw him into the swimming pool for trying to shine up too much to the faculty. After graduation he taught school and began running for political offices. He became...
...season, when Tech had a particularly strong eleven, the schedule included a game with Clemson, a weak sister that year. The Atlanta gamblers spotted Clemson 35 points. Alex heard about it, played the entire game with his B team, and eked out a 7-to-0 victory. The gamblers lost their shirts, but none of their respect for Coach Alex...
Facts are: James L. Williams '46 wanted a date, didn't have one. So classmate John Clemson volunteered, and they fixed him up, but good. Called him (her) Joan Pratt, even to the extent of signing a guest slip for her (him). But that turban gave it away...
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