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...Reverend Gentleman seems to think that stones are stones and St. Peter's but an organized quarry instead of a crystallization of the human spirit, building ad majorem Dei gloriam. But even in quarries men lose their lives. . . ." The most telling retort was written by one David Naylor: "May I enquire if any of the gentlemen so deeply concerned over the ancient monuments of Rome have an only son whom they are prepared to sacrifice on the altar of St. Peter's? If not, may I then ask them to moderate the enthusiasm with which they propose...
...Jimmy Wasdell from the Pirates, Babe Dahlgren from the Dodgers. Dahlgren is now leading both leagues with a batting average of .351 ; Wasdell is hitting around .300. But the clinching stroke that has given the Phillies a winning combination was trading Outfielders Earl Naylor and Danny Litwhiler (Litwhiler was considered their best outfielder) for three Cardinal castoffs: Coaker Triplett, Buster Adams and Dain Clay (later swapped for Cincinnati Shortstop Charlie Brewster...
...dives and an individual 300-yard medley race round out the program. Jim Cook, Yale's defending champion, may duplicate the double he scored in both diving events last year, but not before he outpoints such entries as Harvard's Shaw McCutcheon. Ralph Buratti, Rutgers' talented young sophomore, Jim Naylor of Syracuse, Jim Russell of Loyola College at Baltimore, Con Doran from Princeton and Bill Cant of Penn...
...sectors of the Western Front there was often such spontaneous Christmas truce as the Pope last week thought well to mention. But a formal, negotiated 1940 Christmas truce was seemingly ruled out by Winston Churchill fortnight ago in the House of Commons. To a question from Laborite Thomas Ellis Naylor whether His Majesty's Government would "invoke the good offices of the Vatican or of some neutral State" in furthering a Christmas truce, the Prime Minister quietly answered...
...Jawn'll Naylor to the wall," the Sage of the Age boasted in return. "Morris at stake today, and if Fegan raise his Stanard from last week, he'll Sandbach...