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...Baa of Sheep. "Of course it's not the fault of the Americans," a French labor union official admitted, "but psychologically the experience has been catastrophic. When the U.S. arrived here it had a chance to show how workers are treated back in America. Instead, it sat back and let a French contracting company run the show. The workers, seeing the American flag, put all the blame on the Americans...
...mina, tethera, methera) became "Eena, meena, mina, mo"; and Westmorland's hevera,devera,dick (eight, nine and ten) is the most likely origin of "Hickory, dickory, dock." In the 18th Century, "Hot Cross Buns / One a penny / Two a penny" was a street vendor's cry. "Baa, baa, black sheep / Have you any wool?" probably dates back to the export tax imposed on wool in 1275. The "Four and twenty blackbirds, baked in a pie" goes back to the Renaissance, when live birds really were put in pies, ready to fly out when...
...Yong Ham of Korea won the annual BAA marathon yesterday in 2:32:39; John Lafferty was the first American, at 2:39:52; and David L. Smith '51 was the first Harvard finisher, somewhere around 4:20. Smith was 71st...
Dean Martin is a handsome, 31-year-old ex-millhand, ex-pug and ex-croupier in a casino, with a post-Crosby baa in his baritone. The zanier half of the comedy is furnished by Jerry Lewis, a 23-year-old with horse teeth and a bangtail bob, who is probably the most precocious comic to come out of the wings since Milton Berle was a Wunderkind. Young Jerry already has good control of half-a-dozen comedy styles. He can deliver a gag, dance & sing, play the sappy adolescent ("If I go wit' girls, I get pimples...
Dick Weiskopf should win both the 100 and the 220 for the Yardlings. Ace Yale hurdler Skip Hill will give Charlie Durakis, Jim McLaughlin, and Bill Gelck plenty of competition. Frank Efinger, who took third in 4:19 behind Gil Dodds in the BAA mile last year, is slated to put a dont in the Crimson's near perfect middle distance and mile record although Dave Cairns, Ron Berman, Dave Gregory and company will give the Yale star a run for his money...