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...States Army men. More epithets have been directed against those self-willed animals, than against any other unit of cavalry infantry, or artillery. Gradually, the mule became associated, in the minds of the people, with the doughboys: "As stubborn as an Army mule" became a popular slogan. So it wasn't strange that the West Point cadets, when they were looking around for a mascot, chose the mule...
...story that TIME OUT has to tell now is a good deal more cheerful than that of a few weeks ago. On the whole the team made a good showing in the first game. To be sure, the work wasn't perfect, but then continual shifting about of the players left every one in doubt about the line-up until Eddie Morris turned on his vocal chords. The rapid-fire changes during the week preceding the game were necessary but they didn't make for a coordinated club. The department that felt the effects of this was the running attack...
...fame kept getting in his way. Franklin was a national hero but Washington and the Federalists disliked his philosophy and feared his politics: they shut every political door in his grandson's face. Franklin fitted Benny up in a printshop and expected Benny to be happy, but he wasn't. "While Franklin, by his precept, urged him to become a craftsman, he obliged him, by his glory, to act the lordling. While he preached simplicity, industry, frugality and love of the people to him, his three houses, his sedan chair, his titles and his fame gave...
...remarkable field general too. But long before the Yale game people were wondering when Wells was going to open up. They found out that he could run once in a while, that at times he could throw a pass within 10 yards of the receiver but he wasn't doing it often enough to suit them. His passes were terrible and his running was poor. His field-generalship was a matter of personal opinion. Every one is hoping for the realization of the promise of better things this year but it's too early...
Asked how he looked and felt in the parade, Editor Brisbane, 68, replied: "I wasn't tired, because I exercise constantly, breaking in young horses and chopping down trees. . . . We all perspired a good deal. . . . Life is one long procession, anyway. . . . Future processions will be in the air, thousands of airplanes, wing to wing...