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...course in folklore was going high, wide & handsome. It now has a firm place in the curriculum. The course is not compulsory, but 420 kids this year begged for the chance to try it. They read all about Bunyan, and how he wept so much when his blue ox Babe fell ill, that his tears formed the Great Salt Lake. Then the kids make maps of Utah...
...kids sing cowboy tunes and spirituals, and the songs of mines and railroads. But mostly, their heads are filled with the heroes that grew as the nation grew. "It's more fun than arithmetic," said one eighth-grader. "I wish we had a blue ox like Babe out on my dad's ranch. I'll bet she'd dig him a stock pond just like she dug Lake Michigan...
...means that Emil Drvaric and Billy Booe may get a chance to match toes against each other. Booe, a 146-pound, five-foot six senior from Shelton, Conn., has kicked 27 straight points after touchdown, six at the end of last year and 21 this fall. Drvaric, considered the "Babe Ruth" of collegiate kickoff and point-after artists, has converted 12 times for the Crimson this year. He is one of 14 Seniors, including the Chipper, who will be playing their last game of football for the Crimson today
Next day, on the green turf of Baltimore's Babe Ruth Stadium, Notre Dame's old reliable T-formation worked so well against Navy that the U-formation was never used. In fact, Leahy's big problem was to keep down the score. In the fourth quarter, he pulled out his first-stringers, forbade further use of the forward pass, and limited his second-stringers to a few elemental plays. Final score...
Gene Kelly plays D'Artagnan as an irrepressible, tongue-in-cheek Gascon who is knee-deep in gory swordplay. But his comrades Athos, Porthos and-Aramis are derring-doodlers. Athos (Van Heflin) is a self-pitying alcoholic, grieving over his betrayal by a buxom babe known around the French court as Lady de Winter (Lana Turner). Porthos is just a fortune hunter, and Aramis is ready to forswear the world...