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...football. He was, after all, only seven months old in 1895 when the first pro game was played. But after almost five decades as player, coach and owner, "Papa Bear" of the Chicago Bears does have a couple of impressive credits in the football record book. One is the longest run (98 yds.) with a recovered fumble (the fumbler: Jim Thorpe) in the history of the National Football League. Another is the National Football League...
...celebrate Belmont's reopening, the noted poet and racing devotee, Classicist Rolfe Humphries, 73, set down his own memory parade in verse (first printed below). With the horses running once again on Belmont's wide-sweeping mile-and-a-half oval, the longest in the U.S., even the jockeys and trainers were cheering. "Now we've got all the big races back where they belong," said Owner-Trainer E. Barry Ryan. "It's great to be home again...
Chances of survival with a new heart are slim, but the odds against a lung transplant are unknown. Only three whole-human -lung transplants are known to have been attempted in medical history, and the longest any of the patients survived was 18 days. Despite the minimal experience and maximal risk, a team of ten doctors and ten assistants made a fourth try at Edinburgh's Royal Infirmary last week. The team was headed by Scotland's Dr. Andrew Logan, a pioneer in heart-valve surgery. The patient: 15-year-old Alex Smith of the Isle of Lewis...
...like a pastor at the moment of decadence. In The Other America, Harrington heaped coals on the heads of his middle-class pewholders by exposing the suffering of the "invisible poor"-and helped make it a new priority of national concern. In this book, Harrington attempts Jeremiah's longest leap: from the catalogue of sins to the calculus of redemption. "The American system doesn't seem to work any more," he says, and in Toward a Democratic Left proposes what he calls "practical intimations of a new civilization...
...With an incisive and lively style, DeYoung's fast-moving argument is more speculative than conclusive, but convincing just the same. In contrast, Jacob Egan '68 does a longer, deeper, more confined analysis in a Dickens study, "Reification and the Rhetoric of Nature in Bleak House"--the longest piece in Bogus. The texture is as academic as the title, and requires thesis-grading frame of mind...