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SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY Holland was a land of blood, sweat and beers. It fought long and fiercely to win complete independence from Spain; it amassed huge wealth by energetic trading at home and around the world, and like the U.S. today it developed a dominant middle class with a uniquely high standard of living. Unlike middlebrow Americans, the Dutch in their golden age prized paintings highly enough to buy them. In some towns, professional painters outnumbered the butchers. Perhaps a score of the artists achieved greatness; the works of a handful rivaled and vastly enriched the art of the ages...
Working out in a sweat-suit along the sidelines at yesterday's drill was center Jan Meyer, but Jordan does not expect the junior's back to recover completely this season. Meyer started the first three games for the varsity this year...
Still working out in light sweat clothes were Dexter Lewis and Dick Koach who were both injured in the Dartmouth game. It is doubtful whether either will see action this Saturday...
Above them all stood a tall, blond young man in a double-breasted tan gabardine suit. His handsome, strong-jawed face was drawn and his blue eyes glittered; for a few seconds he gnawed nervously on a thumbnail, and bright sweat covered his high forehead. He was speaking softly, but with an urgency that seemed to tense every muscle of his body...
...high-keyed as a racehorse. Graham spends himself prodigally in God's service, but he takes good care of himself, too. eating four or five meals a day to keep up his strength, keeping a trailer at the stadium in New Orleans so he can change his sweat-drenched clothes each night immediately after speaking. He plays as much golf as he has time for (seldom more than nine holes, at an average 45 ). Almost obsessively clean (he takes three baths or showers on a busy day, has manicures to curb his nail-biting) and almost unnaturally natural...