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Preparations for Saturday's Princeton battle moved on in high gear yesterday afternoon at Soldiers Field as Coach Harlow put his various elevens through drills designed to overcome the Tigers both offensively and defensively. The squad went through all the phases of the game--pass defense and offense, signal drills, defense against Princeton plays, and kicking under pressure...
...gentleman named Paul Governali, who throws forward passes for a living under the aegis of the Boston Yanks pro-sessional football team, made things interesting at Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon, as the Varsity team's preparations for its appointment at Palmer Stadium Saturday continued at high gear...
...copilot was not in a DC-4. He was in a Constellation (which has a landing-gear lever where the DC-4 has its flap lever). Instead of the flaps coming up, the wheels came up. The Connie crashed seven feet, on to the runway. The crew and 26 passengers were unhurt. But the $750,000 Connie was damaged beyond repair. Contributing cause to the accident: a safety lock-designed to keep the landing gear from coming up when a plane is on the ground-did not work...
...much so that when I walked down Fifth [Avenue] with him he had to beg me to get him into a taxi since the females pestered him so." Flagg's own pestering gets considerably more space in his book. The story of his love life starts in low gear ("How was I to know that beautiful Nellie, voluptuous and sweet to look upon, was physically frigid?"), but soon shifts into high...
...column called Words to Live By appears each week in This Week. Authors, philosophers, statesmen, educators and plain citizens choose and comment on quotations, famous or obscure, as a steering gear for readers in "these rudderless days." For No. 22 in the series, Stringfellow ("Winkie") Barr, president of St. John's College, last week plucked a 2,000-year-old thought from Aristotle: "All men desire by nature to know." Wrote Barr...