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...when Liebgott blooped a hit to center, pitcher Lincoln collected his second single of the day, and John Dockery got on via an Engineer boot. Neville lined a single. Hootstein's wind-blown pop-up escaped the M.I.T. second baseman, and Houston capped the rally with his third base knock...
...Crimson golfers are hungering for a win. They have a dismal 6-7 record so far this season with only two matches to go. They must knock off Dartmouth to have a chance to finish with a .500 season, the only goal that remains...
Like any aspiring singer, Mrs. Elva Miller has had to struggle to be heard. In her case, though, the struggle has been going on for most of her 58 years. When she was a child, people were forever telling her to knock off the singing and please go skip rope or something. But she persevered, joined the high school glee club and the church choir, later studied voice for seven years at Pomona College. Still, whenever she tuned up, people tended to drift out of earshot, and friends politely suggested that maybe please she should take up knitting or something...
...Least Harm. In the bars already open, teen-age boys serve as waiters, carrying bottle openers tied to the ends of rags. The panache with which they knock the cap off a bottle of beer, sending the top sailing to the ceiling, lends lively contrast to the slothlike movements of the bar's eight girls, shuffling from soldier to soldier. The price of a "short time" varies with the demand from $2.50 to $5 and inevitably has produced grumbling. "General Kinnard ought to put his foot down," complained one cavalryman last week. "Five bucks is too high. He oughta...
...Outfit. If the rakehell wants a drink after the legal 1:30 a.m. closing time, he need only walk over to the Variety Lounge on Broadway and knock on the door marked "Family Entrance." There, at 3:30 on a recent morning, a two-man band was in full swing, and 50 people kept two bartenders in constant motion. Gambling? In East Chicago, there are poker games almost any night upstairs over the Nu-Oriental Restaurant, and poker, pinball and betting on the horses at Forsythe Billiards. For a full Baedeker tour of the county's delights, the visiting...