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...wasps that developed success fully into adults. Of the two kinds of wasps that built nests among the instruments, Shinn noticed that only the yellow-and-black daubers used radioactive mud. The nests of the closely related pipe-organ daubers were always as free of radioactivity as if nuclear phys ics had never come to Tennessee. How could the wasps tell the difference...
...football field. The students box Greek style, lope like Greek marathoners, toss a round stone "shot," skim a flat stone "discus," compete in wildly Hellenic wrestling free-for-alls. Winners go without Achilles' top prize, "fair-girdled women," but the exercise is splendid, and Sewanee's phys ed department is ecstatic...
...Ouch! A required course for all physical-education majors (a category that includes a healthy sampling of Omaha U. athletes), Phys. Ed. 251 swings out under the critical eye of Dancing Master James E. ("Tom") Brock. A World War II marine and a veteran of the football wars as a three-year center at Notre Dame, 38-year-old Footballer Brock heads the university men's physical education department and doubles as a line coach. "At first these fellows think it's all for the birds," admits Brock, "but dancing pulls them down a peg. They learn that...
...Martin Balsam), for instance, is a phys. ed. instructor in a city high school, 30-some, decent and a little dumb. Three (Lee J. Cobb) is the boss of a messenger service, a dispositional bully who would rather punch somebody than stand up to his own problems. Four (E. G. Marshall) is a broker so coldblooded he never even sweats. Seven (Jack Warden) is a marmalade salesman who can really spread it on, and who is all for rushing the defendant to the chair so that he can hurry off to a seat of his own-at the evening ball...
...readmitted the next fall even though he did not report for make-up summer school. Then he flunked out again, only to be readmitted in 1953. ¶ Another physical-education student who flunked out as a freshman in January 1953 but was promptly readmitted in February. His best subjects: Phys. Ed. 123 ("Coaching Basketball") and Phys. Ed. 125 ("Coaching Football"), ¶ A football co-captain who, in spite of cheating on a physiology exam, inched himself up-after five years-to the junior class. His "junior"-year curriculum: Sport Skills (a required freshman course which he had already taken...