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Cornell has lost its first three matches this year, but that's hardly an indication that it's reached the end of its rope. The losses were 26-5 to Oklahoma State, possibly the best team in the nation, 22-16 to Lehigh and 19-16 to Navy, two of the best in the East...
...Thomson's first biography, Australian Writer Russell Braddon skillfully retraces the publisher's dedicated pursuit of the dollar. Thomson is not an easy man to write about, but Braddon has made the most of meager information. Myopic but energetic, Thomson went to work at 14 for a rope factory, where he soon exhibited a "passionate devotion to money." He took time off only to marry a red-haired girl named Edna. "One of the best selling jobs I ever done," he commented...
...school when, performing at the White House in 1926, he pickpocketed a revolver from Calvin Coolidge's bodyguard, and became one of the giants in the field with his own line of spectacular tricks, featuring a donkey vanishing onstage and a rope climber disappearing in a cloud of smoke; of uremia; in Hollywood...
Clay put on a dancing exhibition during the first round, shuffling, bouncing, kicking, and skipping an imaginary rope. Floyd landed at least three good jabs and won the round -- the only one he was to win all night...
...Dead theologians [Oct. 22] are spinning the rope with which to hang themselves. If, as they claim, man's intelligence was used to create a God who does not exist, it could then be argued that man's intelligence is now being used to murder a God who does. Saying God is dead is about as intelligent as saying that a city's electrical power is dead when your own reading light doesn't work...