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...Valpey sent his squad through long contact drills against the Freshmen and Jayvees, testing defenses against the Yardlings and working its offense against the Junior Varsity. Yesterday marked first time this year that the Freshmen have run an opposition's attack against the Varsity. Carroll Lowenstein simulated Ed Finn, Brown's ace passer in its winged T formation...
...question of Silas Lapham or Huck Finn, and I'll take Huck Finn anytime," Associate Professor Sam Beer asserted in a debate on the election with Associate Professor Charles R. Cherington before more than 200 people who packed the Littaner Loungo last night...
Intruder in the Dust makes the reader work, it is not easy reading. But the reward is worth the trouble. It can be read as a detective story, a humorous idyl (a kind of second cousin to Huckleberry Finn), an outraged, descriptive exhortation to Southern society, a parable of modern life. It is also a triumphant work...
...Finns thought they had the race to themselves, as they usually have (the great Paavo Nurmi won it twice). For the first few laps last week, it looked as if they were right. Nurmi's protégé, lanky Viljo Heino, set the pace, with a fellow Finn, Heinstrom, padding at his heels. Like a patient English housewife in a fish-market queue, Zatopek stayed politely back in about tenth or twelfth place. On the tenth lap, "he picked up speed, pounded past Viljo Heino and took the lead. At about the halfway mark Zatopek began lapping...
...Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn had definite ideas on the best way to cure warts. Tom favored "spunk-water" (rain water in a rotten tree stump). One of Huck's favorite prescriptions required a dead cat: "Why, you take your cat and go and get in the graveyard 'long about midnight when somebody wicked has been buried; and when it's midnight a devil will come, or maybe two or three . . . and when they're taking the feller away, you heave your cat after 'em and say, 'Devil follow corpse, cat follow devil, warts follow...