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...Toeless & Barefoot. In the pros, extra points and short field goals are supposed to be automatic. Not this season...
...attempts. Things are no better in the American Football League. After they barely edged Houston, 20-17, missing three field goals in the process, the A.F.L. Champion San Diego Chargers started looking around for a new place kicker. And whom did they come up with? Ben Agajanian, 45, a toeless wonder (he lost four toes on his kicking foot in an elevator accident) who had bounced around 14 pro teams before retiring for the third time last year...
...Whom the Bell. Even among the lepers and the loathsome jungle there is no escape from the fate of being Querry. A leading leper has been assigned to him as a "boy"; his name-and only Graham Greene could think of this-is Deo Gratias. Toeless, fingerless, he gets about; he is a "burntout" or arrested case, like Querry himself, but his mutilation has left him unfit to live in the world, and so he re-enacts the Biblical horror that obliged the leper to carry a warning bell and cry of himself, "Unclean...
...bulk of the novel describes his trials. Some of them would scarcely faze a cub scout, and there is so much hiking in fog and snow, up hill and through bog, that Frodo seems at times like a mythical postman. His enemies, however, send shivers rippling along the spine: toeless, green-scaled Ores, fire-breathing Balrogs, Barrow-wights who put their prey in a catatonic trance, and the Ringwraiths, nine black-shrouded riders on nine black horses. Frodo and friends best them all, but in the modern manner, more by muddling through than by measuring up to their challenges. Obscure...
...Swede-baiter and vice president of Helsinki University, Professor Linkomies patched together a coalition Cabinet, with toeless* Sir Karl Henrik Wolther Ramsay as Foreign Minister. Sir Karl's title was given to him by the British, but any personal leanings he may have toward the Allies have not up to now affected his view that Finland had no choice but to stay on Germany's side. Fortnight ago, speaking as Supply Minister in the former Cabinet, Sir Karl re-emphasized one of the facts which explain Finland's continuance in the war: "Germany is the only country...