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...history. Grizzled, bourbon-swigging, pistol-packing prospectors first struck the Argonaut about 1848, were soon whooping it up in the noisy, ramshackle saloons & cafes of nearby Jackson. Broken and empty bottles so cluttered the muddy, wagon-rutted streets that the town got its first name: Botilleas. On the great oak that stood on Main Street more than ten men were strung up. When nearby Double Springs was made county seat in 1851, civic-minded Jacksonians dashed over on horseback, hijacked the county seals, papers and archives. Every election was a horse race, fast riders hit every town and camp, voted...
Fourth on the list, Weeks of West Newton and Weld Hall, nosed out French by only two votes. The fifth place man comes from Northridge, California and Straus Hall. He is also a Union Committee member. Business Manager of the Red Book, McNulty resides in Oak Park, Illinois and Thayer Hall. Overcash, who placed seventh, comes from Springfield, Tennessee and Matthews Hall...
...sons of old Erin have taken over the Yardling infield in grand style. Aside from being wicked wielders of the oak shillelagh, first basemen Jack Casey, keystone sacker Vince Leahy, shortstop Jim Gallagher, and hot corner guardian Johnny Kilpatrick have given the Freshman squad some of the fanciest exhibitions of fielding finesse that have graced the enclosed arena in many a campaign. The outfield has had little but batting practice...
...equal his father's World War I record, he still needs an oak leaf for his D.S.C...
...slalom, the U.S. team had an overwhelming favorite: bespectacled, oak-legged Marilyn Shaw, 17-year-old daughter of the owner of the general store at Stowe, Vt. At 15 she outran a crack field that included famed Betty Woolsey, once ranked among the world's first ten woman skiers. Last year Miss Shaw waltzed off with the ladies' U.S. slalom championship...