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Last year it was The Dirty Dozen. This year it is the filthy 1,500, a mixed bag of World War II regimental rejects who hate the brass en masse. As in Dozen, they are given a last chance to shape up or ship out. Under the brutal direction of their hard-nosed but inexperienced commander (William Holden), they decide that valor is the better part of discretion, and begin playing soldiers in earnest...
Tyson's generalization seems to have little support among most black athletes at Harvard. "There are radical and conservative athletes," halfback Will Stargel, observed. Williamson added, "I don't think the distribution is much different from the rest of the college. They're a strange bag of guys...
...Most of the dormitory and the rest of the senior class were on to their secret up to the time when they were discovered. One senior said that "hundreds of people, even the flits" were joining them for a smoke. In February one of the two left his laundry bag on a staircase. His housemaster, finding it, brought it up to their room where he discovered them smoking. They were both dismissed...
Wide, Not Strong. Humphrey, meanwhile, has been making progress on two fronts. Recently he has collected a bag of delegates in state conventions and caucuses in Maryland, Delaware, Arizona, Wyoming, Nevada, Hawaii, Alaska and Maine. Humphrey has also been doing well against Kennedy in public-opinion polls, outdistancing him by nine points in the Gallup sampling of Democrats reported last week. In April, Kennedy led by four. Humphrey has labor backing and strong support from businessmen, who by and large still distrust Bobby. He has even been gaining among younger voters?ostensibly Kennedy's strongest bloc. The May survey, however...
...bony fingers and rolling his eyes, Tiny Tim skips onstage like Bea Lillie in drag: shoulder-length locks, tattersall sports jacket decorated with a sheriff's badge, plaid shirt and orange socks. He always carries a copy of the New Testament and lugs a soiled brown shop ping bag in which he always keeps such talismans as a dime-store compact (he uses pale Elizabeth Arden foundation makeup), two notebooks containing the lyrics of 500 songs, and, of course, his "dear, sweet" ukulele...