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Nothing that happened last week could prevent the spreading of cold rage through an already frigid spike of a man-Reinhard Heydrich, Adolf Hitler's chief executioner. For, clearly, the thousands of tired bodies he had rushed to the rope or the firing squad had not cowed Europe's revolt against Hitler's New Order...
Then Coach Spike Nelson said that he favored athletic scholarships as a "good investment," although he did not advocate proselyting or even specifically say that he wanted aid to football men at Yale...
...controversy reached Princeton, where the Daily Princetonian printed an editorial which supported the Big Three Presidents' Agreement and said, "We hope Yale, in spite of Spike Nelson and his undergraduate supporters, sticks by the agreement. If it doesn't, the traditional Yale-Princeton rivalry will be made into a mockery...
...Spike Nelson, the head coach, has a very acceptable list of backs in spite of the loss of Willoughby because of a recent injury. Two unheralded but promising Sophomores are Taylor and Ferguson who alternate at the tailback spot...
...Blandy, whose consuming passions are ordnance and gunnery. When he was gunnery officer on the U.S.S. New Mexico from 1927 to 1929, the battleship twice won the Battle-Efficiency Pennant ("Meatball" to the sailors) as well as a pair of gunnery trophies and two turret Es. Says a pal: "Spike's idea of a perfect target practice was to shoot the masts off the target ship from 8,000 yards, starting with the top and working down. Throwing shells into the hull was shooting fish in a bucket...