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Indian fat was in the fire for 1,500 vociferous Harvards last night as they cheered, sang, and drank to the Varsity's homecoming in a turbulent torch-light rally and parade...
Accessories Extra. In San Francisco, Edward T. Adkins, who had equipped his car with a magazine rack, movie camera, electric torch and drill and an airplane steering gear, was stopped for driving without license plates...
...than 5,000 athletes from 58 nations (among the largest: the 341-man U.S. squad) marched around the field. Exactly on schedule, at 4:07 p.m., a runner entered Wembley Stadium, bearing the "permanent flame" from Greece. He was anchor man on a human chain which had relayed the torch from a British destroyer landing at Dover. The flame went out twice...
...fishing village of Katakalon, the night before, officers of the Greek (ex-British) destroyer Hastings had invited British officials and Anglo-American newsmen to an "Olympic torch party" in a restaurant. The party was gay. Lieut. Colonel John Casey, a pink-faced, ginger-mustached member of the British mission, was singing a Greek ballad, Mavra Matya (Black Eyes) when a burst of Communist machine-gun fire thudded into the building. One gendarme was killed trying to douse the lights; the others got down under the tables. Casey went on singing in the darkness to cover the departure of two Greeks...
Give & Take. In Paris, Tex., Safe Robber W. H. Driggers explained to police what he'd done with $83 from his last haul: the cutting torch had damaged the bills, so he mailed them to the Treasury Department for new ones...