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...morning of the Princeton game on November 8, 1926, the Lampoon published football issue featuring a cartoon of two pigs wallowing in the mud with the caption, "Come, brother, let us root for dear old Princeton...
...Mud Machines. Vending's technological revolution got its start right after World War II when Bert Mills Corp. of St. Charles, Ill., and Rudd-Melikian, Inc. of Hatboro, Pa., came out with hot coffee machines. Despite the unappetizing flavor of the first machine-served coffee-variations on Mississippi mud-it was an immediate success, and Rudd-Melikian Chairman K. Cyrus Melikian and President Lloyd Rudd are two more of vending's instant millionaires. It was coffee, too, that started Interstate's Wolff off seven years later when he got exclusive rights to the first machine to prepare...
...began again in the afternoon, talking as we worked, but not stopping. Once in a while one of the men paused to spit on his hands, or to push the black mud off his hoe with his bare foot. We never wore our leather sandals while working. Sometimes we would hoe over an ant hill, and the small black ants would nibble at our feet...
...While mighty Michigan State rolled on to victory, elsewhere last week upsets were the order of the day. Unbeaten Iowa, its swift running attack mired in ankle-deep mud, was beaten by hard-nosed Purdue (9-0). Resurgent Notre Dame, which had lost only to Michigan State, fell to Northwestern's pinpoint passing attack (12-10). Navy, rated the East's best team with four straight victories, lost 28-14 to underdog Pitt. Army was upset by West Virginia (7-3), and Maryland was surprised by South Carolina 20-10. But other powerhouses continued to roll. Second-ranked...
...Jill wears a g-in.-wide "body belt," but she still takes a beating elsewhere. Last year in Scotland, she fractured a kneecap. In Wales, Jill suffered through a series of bizarre misfortunes. Stuck in a deep bog, she had to drag her 3OO-lb. cycle out of the mud. When her bike hit a bad bump, Jill plunged over the handlebars, landed headfirst in a rabbit hole. "I was stuck so fast," she says, "that I had to undo my helmet to get my head out.'' Battered, mud-spattered, running a fever, Jill doggedly refused to quit...