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...Oregon missed two field goal attempts, but one was so close that the scoreboard keeper recorded a "9" for the Westerners. Otherwise there were no scoring threats until the final minutes when the Crimson drove 79 yards only to have the game end with the ball on the six-inch line. Horween gained 67 of the 79 yards...
...normal aftereffects of any heart attack, like the scar tissue that covers a burn. In describing the heart attack as acute after they had always called it moderate, the doctors referred to the suddenness, not the degree, of the thrombosis. The scar itself measured about four-fifths of an inch, and was "average" for the type of attack. While the heart may have increased in size, Snyder said, it was "hardly demonstrable by the X-ray films...
...campaigned over every inch of Leon County," he said, "and Mary Call worked almost as hard as I did. The net result was that I wound up getting beat by about 100 votes." Three weeks later, on June 29, 1932, Roy Collins and Mary Call were married...
Smoker's Hack. In Knoxville, Tenn., Golden Gibson, 43, reached absentmindedly for a cigarette, stuck a two-inch firecracker in his mouth and lit it, announced from his hospital bed that he had decided to give up smoking...
Marx, a fresh-air fiend as well as culture fan, likes to bask in the sun on winter days at the bottom of his swimming pool, which is drained in September. There he sits puffing six-inch cigars (Jack & Charlie's "21" Selection), dictating letters to his Audiograph or reading a dictionary and marking the words and phrases he wants to transfer to his vocabulary. These are later typed by a secretary in a series of black books that Marx carries everywhere, studies in idle moments. For an hour, three or four times a week, he dons sneakers, a grey...