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Roughing up the star performer in a football game is getting to be a very popular pastime, and it is sometimes more noticeable from the pressbox than on the field. Boston American sports-writer Tap Goodenough claims that he noticed some large and heavy Princetonians giving Dick Clasby the treatment last Saturday...
...toys popular in the U.S. Within a year, Marx was head of a Strauss factory. He left to become a toy seller, and soon had enough money to buy Strauss's factories and his most successful mechanical toys-"Zippo the Climbing Monkey" and the "Alabama Coon Jigger," a tap-dancing minstrel. Most competitors thought these two items were finished. Marx proved them wrong: he sold 16 million. Now he has 14 factories spread from Erie. N.Y. to South Africa. Marx has the knack of picking "hot" new toys, and mass-producing old standbys to cut the price and broaden...
Last Friday night at a mixer held in the Psi Sigma house, someone took the society's mascot, a disgruntled owl. A furor immediately broke loose. Honor society teas were on tap and it would look bad for Psi Sigma if it had no mascot. One source said the administration was contemplating giving up mixers. Its return saved the longstanding friendly relationship between Wellesley and Harvard from extinction...
Holy Cross is, the second of three teams the Crimson scouts will not be able to see before game time. Columbia, on tap for next week, and Springfield are the other...
...afraid I'll grow wings." Chaplain Sheehy replied: "We have been 62 days at sea, and we are now drawing on the ship's reserve supplies. Each man has a reserve tank of virtue in him-and the fact of danger may make him tap it. Don't rely upon it for long. It soon runs dry . . . -"There is a spark within each man which is likely to respond to a fire alarm. For three hours, it is alleged, perfect generosity existed in San Francisco after the great earthquake...