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...strange animal that Explorer Vicente Yañez Pinzón brought home from the new world in 1500 astonished the Spanish court. Their Majesties Ferdinand and Isabella ran their royal fingers through the soft-furred pouch on the beast's belly and marveled at such a freak of nature. In that age of exaggerations, the little cat-sized creature grew into weird shapes in the minds of men. To the Venetian court reporter, Peter Martyr, it looked like a "monstrous beaste with a snowte lyke a foxe, a tayle lyke a marmasette, eares lyke a batte, handes lyke...
...leading passer, who in 1950 held the intercollegiate mark of 60.7% completions in one season, sparked his team to a 22-7 upset of California. Husky (6 ft. 1 in., 178 Ibs.) Heinrich carried the ball himself for one score, and earned two more points on a freak play: a California man nabbed a Heinrich pass and fell over his own goal line for a safety...
...have a freak memory," Cooper says. "I can remember indefinitely anything that is not important." In his opus, Cooper recalls almost everything unimportant that happened in Sironia, a pseudonymous Texas town (Cooper has always lived in Waco) in the first 20 years of the century. He tells the important things too; but with the gift of the true gossip for pure indiscrimination he can tell about a rape in the same cozy tone he uses to describe a family evening at home -and, in Sironia, one seems to have been as common as the other...
...Room Walkup. Graduated from Bryn Mawr and determined to be a great actress, Kate pursued the theater with such intensity and such conviction as her fellow actors had seldom seen and generally resented. One screamed at her: "You're a freak of nature-you'll never last!" She played stock in Baltimore, studied dramatics in New York under Frances Robinson-Duff, landed a bit part in These Days, a Broadway flop. For six months she understudied Hope Williams in Holiday. Sculptor Robert McKnight, who wanted to marry her, took her to the country for an afternoon. She talked...
...sophomore Monk Aiello scored on a freak shot which bounced off a defense man's chest and into the goal at 13:43, to tie the count again and set up Yost's winner...