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...many, too heavy and too hot. Said the News: "We've never . . . blown our editorial horn for any nudist cult . . . Where do you put your change, cigarettes and matches? [But] we've urged outright rebellion against any and all social edicts which say a guy has to pull a hot jacket over a carcass which already, probably, is steaming like a 1908 Maxwell. Down with any heartless females and etiquette fanatics who'd still like to see us looking like boiled lobsters and feeling like steamed clams." The News confidently headlined...
...audience was seeing was Cinerama, the 13-year-old brainchild of Inventor Fred Waller of Huntington, N.Y. A new variation on the old theme of three-dimensional movies, Cinerama does not reproduce such old tricks as the baseball thrown straight into the spectators' laps; rather, it seems to pull the audience into the picture. And it has managed to eliminate some bothersome three-dimensional snags: spectators do not need to wear special glasses, nor must they sit in a narrow area directly before the screen...
...Crimson collectively gave up 12 walks and hit four Eli batters. Stuffy McInnis went through his entire staff, except for Rufe Webb, who pitched Tuesday against Princeton. Then the coach was forced to throw in catcher Bill Fitzpatrick, who has pitched only school and legion ball, and finally to pull Captain Johnny White in from the shortstop position...
...Army, though it still insisted that its future generals learn their trade in combat, thought such heavy casualties were too high for the long pull ahead. "It is always the best men who get knocked off," said one officer bitterly. The 1951 class will get about six months' advanced U.S. combat training before the Army releases them for Korean duty, with a fighting chance of living through...
Though he did not know it at the time, he was already in the racket. That very morning the Corporation had met and picked Whitney Griswold to be Yale's 16th president. "Pull up your socks, boy, and get on with it," Dean Acheson told him. With some misgivings, Griswold...