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...surrealist picture of arms, legs, and formless sweat-shirts which yesterday was Harvard Varsity wrestling will this afternoon straighten itself out into some semblance of a grappling squad when Coach Chief Boston holds his pre-season try-outs...
...return the movie magnates were very good to Willie Bioff. They sent him and his wife to Europe and South America. Joe Schenck lent him $100,000 to buy an alfalfa farm, gave him $8,000 after a good evening at poker, gave him also a sun cabinet to sweat away his belly and a portrait inscribed "To my friend Willie." It was wonderful...
Early one spring morning, a husky young surgeon ran up 20 steps to the door of the University of Pennsylvania Hospital. Suddenly he felt a stabbing pain in his chest; he broke out in a cold sweat, gasped for breath. His colleagues rushed him off to bed. A few days after this heart attack they found that a blood clot had formed in one of the chambers of his heart...
...laryngitis last week, Dick Mack, writer-producer of the Rudy Vallee show on which John is stooge extraordinary, called him up to say that he, Mack, had gone through John's part in rehearsal. "My God," replied the Great Profile in clear, unlaryngetic tones, "a cold sweat comes over me. I'll be there tomorrow night." Next noon, however, John passed out as he was trying to dress, went to Hollywood Hospital instead...
...plenty of gears before Sperry came along . . . we thought we were pretty good . . . we showed tolerances of a thousandth of an inch or less, and we thought the first Sperry order was just more of the same. . . . For nearly seven months we sweat. . . . We found we weren't so hot. . . . We had good men and good machines but we learned to get better work from both. . . . Rejects got less and less. Now we turn out 1,100 different types and sizes of gears and our rejects are less than...