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Shepard started about as mush from scratch as a coach can start. He inherited an 18 game losing streak from his predecessor, Bill Barclay, minus Barclay's beat playmaker, Chip Cannon, and best individual player. Walt McCurdy. He also accumulated a bunch of sophomores, none of whom ran much over five-feet eight. Shepard put on a sweatshirt and started trying to discover if he had a team...
...prosecutor asked Dr. Murray if this fact altered his opinion. The witness nodded and replied, "I scratch that item out entirely." It was the first time he had conceded a point to the government. The rest of his previous diagnosis remained unchanged...
...spit-and-scratch school of society reporting in the nation's capital, two of the sharpest-clawed are Austine McDonnell Cassini Hearst of the Washington Times-Herald and Evelyn Peyton Gordon March of the Washington Daily News...
...Evie's column as important as the pearl onions in their Gib sons, promptly swallowed the news. After all, hadn't Evie scooped even Bootsie with the news that William III was on the way? Last week, after brooding darkly about the whole thing, Columnist Hearst scratched back at Columnist March: "Friends will be pleased and amazed to learn that Newsgal Evelyn Peyton Gordon at long last is expecting." No one was more amazed than fortyish, married and childless Evie; she was too mad even to scratch back. The sound of strife on Washington's back fence...
...creme de menthe and appeared to have been sloshed on with a spoon. It did, however, look like something that people would buy in a Christmas card. Conway's Mother and Child lacked even that advantage; it was an all-but-indecipherable tangle of syrupy colors and tricky, scratch-and-patch textures without visible sentiment of any kind. Conway, who golfs about as well (in the high 70s) as he paints, had clearly taken great pains to scramble his prizewinner. Painting, he says, is like golfing: "Hitting the ball for miles and miles to try to get it into...