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...kept him on the bench for the first 20 minutes of play, Mariaschin took to the floor in the third quarter--and the Crimson began to move. Instead of merely parrying blows with yale's Tony Leavelli, the Stahl five took the play away, went on to cop the lead, and eventually won 39 to 7. Mariaschin's two baskets in the scoring columndin't count for much in the final score, but the 15,000 spectators were unanimous in attributing the win to his morale as a floor leader...
...Pasadena, Wright Cougar ran his car into a truck, was asked by a cop how good his brakes were, said "I'll show you," headed for the truck, crashed into it again...
...York Sunday News, which has the most readers in the U.S. (circ. 4,650,000) makes certain assumptions about them: 1) they are literate enough to read picture captions and comic balloons; 2) they are baseball fans; 3) they savvy cop talk. These assumptions underlay a News headline last week...
Commuters, he said, who were unlucky in the recent draw for Yard lodging, should not seek to evade parental supervision for truancy with hotel space in the Cambridge clink. They should, however, purchase a ticket from the friendly cop on the corner...
...Happy Birthday" is an epigrammatic field day for novelist Anita Loos. Like Saroyan's "Time of Your Life," the setting is a saloon: the Jersey Mecca Cocktail Bar in Newark. Across the stage passes a steady procession of Everyman inebriate--the abortionist and his clients, the cop and his yeggs, the tarts, the footloose old maids, and the young businessman out on the make. Joining in the merry-making--by cautious degrees, to be sure--is Addie Bemis, librarian, who swills three "Pink Ladies" and throws repression to the winds. It's the happy Birthday of her life...