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...down-in-the-stadium tradition will be lightly tossed aside. I understand that "Ducky" Pond sat lone on at Yale Fence completely ostracized, after he forgot he was in the Stadium and ran 60 yards with a recovered fumble for Yale's only Stadium touchdown since Joe Forecast first pair of rompers. And with that lesson in mind two years later, the Yale backs argued and argued as to who would make the supreme sacrifice but on would do it. And who has ever questioned the courage of Bunnell, Kline, et Al? (Ed Note--Just who this fellow...
Sixteen East Gay Street is a picture of a street in Columbus, Ohio. Several people are walking along the sidewalk and a pair of children are fixing a tricycle. In the space between the two houses across the street the sky slants a light on the asphalt, and makes the leaves of the trees as bright as coins. It is late afternoon; in the golden twilight everything seems very quiet. If you look at the picture long enough, the man sitting on the porch will fold up his paper and go in to have supper...
...crew coxswain is a wizened creature, pale and weak from worry and reducing. All he needs is a shrill voice and a pair of skinny hands to work the rudder. Yet it is he who gives commands to the eight hulking beasts ahead of him. St. Bonaventure College plays football with a coxswain instead of a quarterback. Francis Flynn badgered and generalled ten great brutes to a 57-0 victory over Alfred. Despairing of their clumsy, earnest efforts, he himself carried the ball 310 yards, once for 93 and touchdown. He is a quarterback, captain of the eleven, weighs...
...Significance of the writings of Authors Mencken & Nathan has increased steadily since they formed their literary vaudeville team. Readers of the American Mercury, of which Mr. Mencken is editor, Mr. Nathan, dramatic reviewer, have smirked at the pair with the nervously good-natured tolerance that a stupid child affects when he sees "Billy is a fool" written upon the school wall. Intelligent critics realize the formula upon which these angry, mocking mimes base their performance. The grotesqueries which they flay are often genuine; but most intelligent people find more important things to think about than such grotesqueries. The admirers...
...Canadian farmer with a team of horses tugged the wreckage of an airplane out of the St. Lawrence River. In the cockpit were found a watch and a pair of socks. A wing section, 13 feet long, washed up elsewhere. Of the flyers no trace...