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Harvard, with a year under Valpey since it last played Columbia, has an edge as far as experience and gridiron poise go. Columbia's defensive platoon includes five sophomores who could be fooled every so often. And there are a like number of sophs in the offensive group who haven't been playing together for very long and who probably haven't come up against a hard-charging line...
Lions Adopt Two-Platoon Strategy...
Little has thus been forced to climb on the two-platoon system bandwagon, even to the point of employing offensive and defensive coaches. A sixty-minute worker himself, Little is aided by such former Lion luminaries as Gene Rossides and Paul Governali...
Controller Tiemann and a platoon of enraged party bosses set up an opposition ticket, called themselves the Independent Republican Good Government group. But in last week's primaries, Meade's ticket won in a walk. Nobody thought that all of Philadelphia's old fat cats had changed their spots. But Bill Meade had at least made a start toward proving that a big city machine can give the voters good men and decent government...
Corporal Charlie Shuttleworth is grinding his teeth with anguish over his wife ("the cow!") who "jacked me in for a civvy"; Major Maddison is exulting as his platoon-in-training comes crashing through a barbed-wire obstacle with blood running from their face scratches (and he furtively pins a putative medal to his chest in the secrecy of his room); Colonel Pothecary, a plain man, stumbles warmheartedly through his announcement of the invasion: "Well, my lads. This is it. At last. You know, I'm damned if I know what to say to you . . . Eat when...