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...time off from the job of berating the practitioners of "amateur athletics" in the nation's colleges and make a quick obeisance in the direction of the Harvard-Yale game, where reside values higher than victory. This year, however, even the two invest of the Ivy League schools are knee-deep in re-examination of football, and it would be folly to consider even the Harvard-Yale game apart from all the developments that have occurred since last November...
...Blaik is knee-deep in good ends. Lowell Sisson and Ron Lincoln occasionally go both ways, although the coach, largely out of desperation, uses two platoons in order to train his inexperienced charges to be adopt in at least one aspect of the game. Defensively, however, Lincoln is turned out of a play far more easily than is Krobock...
...Survivors. This week, in the village of Myonmoki, ten miles east of Seoul, lines of straw-hatted farmers stood knee-deep in the flooded paddies, transplanting their delicate rice seedlings. Unlike the city people, most of the farmers did not flee during the war. When the Communists occupied Myonmoki, the young men hid for three months in the hills, returned to their fields when the Communists retreated, did their plowing in a no man's land between the two armies...
...favored New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox are meanwhile battling for second place and playing very well. The Yanks are knee-deep in first-rate players, and their two top pitchers have a combined '16-'4 record. Two rookies, Gil McDougald at third and Mickey Mantle in right, are learning new positions quickly and hitting steadily. The second base combination of Rizzuto and Coleman is fielding superbly and hitting around .310. Mize and Collins are sharing first base with good results. Yogi Berra is still the best catcher in the league...
Rockabye Dudley (Fri. 12:05 a.m., NBC) offers a whispering disc jockey, knee-deep in poesy. Sample: "Here comes Rockabye Dudley/Out of the blue/ Floating on a light cloud/To you." The music is an approximation of the verse...