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...order to extinguish a smoldering rag on top of an awning at the Charles Restaurant. His was the delicate task of chopping out a part of the framework of the window without marring the much-dirtied glass two and a half inches below. He was assisted by kindly Fate and the crowd was able to return to their beds knowing that the city fathers were adequately protecting their lives and property...
...fate of the other grid coaches now on the Harvard staff, was considered as highly improble that Jimmy Knox, veteran Jayvee coach, could be found a place in the Harlow scheme. Knox is expected to take over some phase of intramural football...
...spinsters, however, crawled into.the junk's hold where they crouched under canvas. Remembering the fate of Missionaries Mr. & Mrs. John C. Stam whom Communists beheaded with a broad sword last month (TIME, Dec. 24), the ladies knew that discovery meant death. A word from the Chinese boatman would do it. The Misses Granner and Renninger crouched below decks for six days, listening, dozing, stretching, thinking about the unclassifiable noises that came from the sacking of the nearby town of Taoyuan. Twice hooves and boots clattered over-head in numbers, for the army had commandeered the junk as part...
...eight years, while he has sat in Cambridge ruefully pondering man's fate. Dr. Hooton's assistants have gone out to make anthropometric measurements of some 20,000 criminals in ten states. From their data he finds not only that criminals are physically marked off from the general population-chiefly by inferiority of bodily dimensions-but that there is "well nigh incredible relationship of body build to nature of offense." An example: First-degree murderers differ from other criminals in being older, heavier, taller, with bigger chest and head circumferences, narrower foreheads, longer and narrower noses, broader jaws...
...Bingham, about to announce the choice of a new football coach, is now on public record as fearing that football may suffer the same fate as baseball which "lost prestige when college administrations attempted to compromise between amateurism and professionalism." Those who have had relations with Mr. Bingham have always realized that he placed more emphasis on the needs of the players than on the desires of the grandstand. Now, however, he is bringing out reasons why a so-called professional coach will not react favorably on the gate receipts. It is indeed encouraging to realize that...