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Quakers On A Spree...
...Quakers have not clicked in their two opening games, but anytime now the tide gates may fall and let loose an avalanche of blazing, whirling Reagans and a trio of battering rams who are listed on your program as fullbacks. They are long overdue for a real scoring spree, because man for man the Penn gridiron edition of 1939 is a real power-house...
...quaintest old towns in Europe last week dropped their placid and peculiar tasks-such as adding tiny flakes of pure gold leaf to the sparkling, sweet liqueur they sell as Danziger Goldwasser-to come tumbling down the high stoops of their peak-gabled houses for a bucolic joy spree over Adolf Hitler...
...colonies in California, Laguna is the artiest. Once a year, Laguna citizens put berets on their heads, hang palettes to the lamp posts along principal streets, welcome thousands of visitors to a ten-day cultural spree...
...James Augustus Suiter's sawmill at Coloma. Twenty-one years later San Francisco had shot up to a polyglot giant of 149,473 inhabitants, a challenger of New York's financial might, a cultural threat to Boston. That year San Francisco went on a three-day spree. Officially it celebrated completion of the transcontinental railroad-"Uncle Sam's Waistband-He would burst without it." Historically it celebrated the end of a unique frontier society, an equally unique frontier literature...