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Bucker Ben Smith and the fast-coming Joe Gardella (who should see plenty of action especially to bolster the backfield defense) will try to keep the spinning offense at the kind of past when they were ripping through the Army line. This Dartmouth team is no world-beater on defense. Harvard will count on an equal-weighted but superior starting forward wall, backed up by Cliff Wilson and Tim Russell, to stop the Green attack, and then will attempt to turn on the offensive steam. Each opponent has scored 20 points against the Harlowmen; today they will...
...avoid possible misunderstanding of the subject of his canvas . . . Albert Gold titled it The Enormous Egg Beater" (TIME, June 20, p. 23). Is this hoax or surrealism? The title might better have been The Useless Egg Beater. Look at tops and bottoms of the blades. At the bottom they cross, the outer blade inside the other. An attempt to turn the wheel would reveal them hopelessly fouling one another...
Observant Reader Semple is quite right, but even if it worked it would remain a useless egg beater. Only Paul Bunyan could use an egg beater five feet high, only Paul Bunyan's chickens could lay eggs big enough for it to beat...
...game hunters. A professional guide to millionaire sportsmen, he enumerates his choice kills, gives bag limits, cost ($2,000 per month per person), devotes his longest section to a hunting trip with the Prince of Wales-"perhaps the toughest sportsman of them all." Except for an occasional game beater. Baron Blixen-Finecke does not care much for natives. Now married to an adventurous, pretty, 29-year-old Englishwoman, he remembers his first wife (Isak Dinesen) for one incident, when she flew unarmed at two lions that had attacked an ox, lashed them into the jungle with a stock whip...
...camel's hair street sweeper-chunky, grey-haired Raoul Dufy has been standing on a stepladder in an abandoned garage outside Paris for many months, while Jacques Maroger, technical adviser to the Louvre, stood below stirring basins full of pigment, water, alcohol and nut oil with an egg beater...