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...University that he is the school's oldest living graduate, football's Grand Old (97) Man Amos Alonzo Stagg (Yale '88) mulled over the matter for a moment, then wired back to New Haven: "Thanks for your good telegram telling me of the distinction which has befallen me. I shall try to behave myself for the rest of my days so that dear old Yale will not suffer...
...steady drizzle of Shulman's arch patter ("Gloria hasn't been a bit well. She ran into this lobster pot when she was water skiing last summer"). Upon Putnam's Landing itself, in a slap-happy ending, falls a distinctly unguided missile. No such fate has befallen Rally Round, which zoomed with unerring prepublication dispatch to its logical target, Hollywood...
...Some people say it's like a dream-it can't be happening here," mused Presbyterian Minister Dunbar H. Ogden Jr., president of the Greater Little Rock Ministerial Association, as he contemplated the fate that had befallen his city. "But I haven't felt like that. This is real...
...also hope that Mr. Barber will condescend to take up another job of much-raking which, although not as serious as that which has befallen the HYRC, surely rates the attention of our B. M. O. C. friend--and that is the alleged selling of Yardling dance tickets printed at $2.00 for $1.00--a recent change. It is rumored that this is a violation of statute, or at least foul play. I say let's clean up this mess, this corruption. And I say let's get a proven man to carry the torch, a stalwart champion of the rights...
...Verdict. The tribunal, six years after the first testimony was taken, accomplished what it had set out to do: it formally found that Joan of Arc had been wrongfully condemned. And the record noted with satisfaction the evil fate that had befallen three of the chief figures in her trial: Bishop Cauchon died suddenly while a barber was trimming his beard, Canon Jean d'Estivet, the "promoter," i.e., prosecutor, disappeared mysteriously and his body was discovered in a gutter, and their right-hand man, Nicolas Midy, was stricken with leprosy...