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...When the National Football Foundation chose football's top scholar-athletes for $500 Earl Blaik Fellowships, all eight turned out to be linemen-who are supposed to be long on brawn and short on brains. The winners: Tufts' David Thompson, Rutgers' Alex Kroll, Vanderbilt's Wade Butcher, Western Reserve's Albert Iosue, Colorado's Joe Romig, Rice's Robert Johnston, Oregon State's Mike Kline, Utah State's Merlin Olsen...
Author Hoving's permissiveness extends to the debatable question of the continental versus the "zigzag" (American) system of knife-and-forkery; Hoving, like Social Mannerists Post and Vanderbilt, endorses the continental form (right hand for the knife, left for the fork, and no switching between bites), ends on a promising note. "When you know the rules," says Hoving, "you can start breaking them...
Enders tried again. Drs. Alice Woodruff and Ernest Goodpasture of Vanderbilt University had recently given virology (and vaccination) a big boost with the discovery that some viruses grow well in incubating eggs. Enders put fluid from a measles patient into eggs, but had no luck. Searching for a better medium, he turned his attention to embryonic tissue culture, sensing that growing viruses in live cells-the technique that Harrison pioneered-held unrealized possibilities...
...passing attack (12-10). Navy, rated the East's best team with four straight victories, lost 28-14 to underdog Pitt. Army was upset by West Virginia (7-3), and Maryland was surprised by South Carolina 20-10. But other powerhouses continued to roll. Second-ranked Mississippi overwhelmed Vanderbilt 47-0. Ohio State ground out a 30-2! win over scrappy Wisconsin to remain unbeaten and move into a three-way deadlock for Big Ten leadership with Michigan State and Minnesota, which last week came from behind to edge out Michigan...
Married. Athina ("Tina") Livanos, 31, handsome, Greek-born shipping heiress previously married to Maritime Magnate Aristotle Onassis; and John George Vanderbilt Henry ("Sonny") Spencer-Churchill, 35, Marquess of Blandford and heir to the loth Duke of Marlborough; both for the second time; in Paris...