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After this astonishing upset, Barney slouched toward the pyramid in a dirty sweat suit. Not until he stepped down from the perch did the old Penn State star come to life. Then he danced a jig and sang: "Piccadilly Alley, here I come . . . La, la, la, la ... Come on, Dillard, let's take a shower. We're going to London...
...Waugh cult were measuring out their lives with swizzle sticks. They had been badly shaken by Brideshead Revisited (TIME, Jan. 7, 1946). Unlike Waugh's earlier novels, its irony had not been outrageously funny, and the typical Waugh mood, bright, pardlike and impermeable, had been clouded by a sweat of nostalgic and religious dither. Worse still, Brideshead was the first of Waugh's novels to become a U.S. bestseller. His fans had reluctantly winked at the fact that he is a conservative and a Roman Catholic convert. But popular? No literary cult can tolerate popularity in its prey...
...time Warren returned to his hotel. Still unshaven, he talked briefly with the California delegation. Out at Convention Hall, the delegates idled in confusion, sweat and irritation, while the conference went on in Room 808. At 11:30 Dewey called Warren, told him he was the almost unanimous choice. His conditions would be met. The decision was relayed to the convention floor...
...Imagine that!" the big hammer thrower said, mopping sweat from his face, "getting beat by a little guy like that." The speaker was 262-pound Shorty Folsworth, the place Lincoln, Nebraska's Memorial Stadium last July and the "little guy" Harvard's Samuel M. Felton, Jr. '48 who had just finished second in the National AAU 16-pound hammer throw with a shot of 172 feet, 5 inches...
Soldiers in the north must be armored against wind chill. For centuries, Eskimos have conquered cold with caribou skins, but there aren't enough caribou to uniform an army. White men have tried piling on layers of clothing, which keep out cold but keep in sweat-and if the sweat freezes, so does the man. Churchill's commanding officer, Lieut. Colonel A. James Tedlie, showed Claxton the New Look for Arctic infantrymen...