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...game was a continual fast-break, interspersed by frequent fouls. The chief beneficiary, the Jumbo center. John Heneghan, was fouled three straight times as he held the ball in the forecourt. Heneghan scored 26 points, high for the night. Crimson coach Norm Shepard tried four different men guarding him. All four were unable to stop his one-hand shots without fouling...
Tuft's Boy Jones, who won the bred jump yesterday, took 11 points, and the meet's scoring honors. He tied last evening's high jump and finished third in the hurdles. Jumbo Jack Goldberg took first in the hurdles and fourth in the 50 yard dash, for six points. Brow 's Walter Molineux won the mile in 4:40.3, exactly 31 seconds slower than his Millrose time...
...Jumbo Gerry Mahoney, twin brother of the Crimson's Frank, who finally broke Hathaway's spell at 17:30, after the Harvard defense had eliminated itself from the play by an untimely collision, Hathaway, however, played a good, steady game...
...Tiger and Christian, Fritz Mühlenweg has written a jumbo-sized adventure story for youngsters old enough to read for themselves. His story begins with a martial skirr in the Peking of 1922. Warlord General Wu Pei-fu is marching on the city. Christian, the son of an American doctor, and his Chinese friend Big Tiger, both twelve, venture out to fly a kite and are snatched up by two of Wu's scouts. In dutiful obedience to their captors, the boys help them capture a whole trainload of military equipment. Delighted, General Wu sends the boys home...
Sometimes the texts invoked charms and magic, sometimes mumbo-jumbo ("Mti, Mti, Mti, Mti . . ."), sometimes sheer bravado ("Heaven thunders, the earth trembles before [the king] . . ."). But they also pleaded good works on behalf of the Pharaoh ("I gave bread to the hungry, clothing to the naked, I ferried him who had no boat...