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...tale tells of the "conceited, but nice" Mr. Toad whose penchant for motorcars and accidents lands him in jail for twenty years. However, thank God, he escapes and with the solicitous aid of his friends Badger, Waterrat and Mole is resorted to the lordship of his ancestral Toad Hall...
...With the exception of Miss Barringer, none of the major characters projects his voice. Instead they strain. As a result everyone has a burr in his voice, and the cumulative hoarseness is annoying. Sansone's falsetto "boop-boop's" are a refreshingly clear contrast to the rusty voice of Badger, Bill Sinkford. But a "boop-boop" only lasts a second...
...primitive marsupials and monotremes. There, an odd sort of evolution took place: instead of the great herds of hoofed animals that developed on other continents, Australia produced kangaroos and wallabies; in place of squirrels there are platypuses and phalangers. The wombat is Australia's equivalent of the badger, and predatory beasts are represented by the Tasmanian wolf, a doglike marsupial...
...being the No. 1 college crew in the nation needed any further substantiation, it got plenty on New York's Onondaga Lake last week, where Wisconsin, which previously had lost to Navy, which had lost to Princeton, which had lost to Yale, won the Intercollegiate Rowing Association championship. Badger Coach Norm Sonju naturally had a different view: spring, he pointed out, is always a little late in Wisconsin. "We don't get out on the water until April," Sonju said, "but we always get up for this race." Way up. Trailing Navy, Brown and Princeton at various times...
...crucial matches of this season. In the 5-4 loss to Princeton, he rallied from a 2-1 deficit to defeat Tiger Bill Reed; at Yale, in the match which decided the national team championship, he contributed to Harvard's 6-3 victory by downing Eli Dan Badger...