Word: bench
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...Game last week, after Yale had rolled to its sixth touchdown, the exuberant Elis decided that it was time to rub some noses into the mud of Harvard Stadium. Off the Yale bench trotted a diminutive player wearing No. 99, unlisted in the program; he took his place at right end as the teams lined up for the point after touchdown. Instead of the standard place kick, a scoring pass was flipped to No. 99. The hopped-up Yales carried the new hero off the field in triumph, pummeling and pounding him as though he had scored the deciding point...
Before he left New York last week for his conference with Ike Eisenhower in Georgia, Tom Dewey flatly took himself out of the running for a Cabinet job. Yet newsmen were still a little skeptical as they watched Ike and Dewey in close conference, on a stone bench overlooking the golf course, through most of one afternoon. Then a statement from Ike made it final: "Governor Dewey emphatically reaffirmed his purpose of continuing in his important post as governor of New York. This purpose, of course, precludes, at least for the present, any thought of requesting him to accept...
Added Lord Chief Justice Goddard: "The facility with which a razor blade can be hidden in the hand and used with the most horrible effect has to be seen to be believed. When someone lets a cosh fall on a bench in court ... it makes one shudder to think of the effect of it on a human head." A longtime believer in corporal punishment, Judge Goddard asked for the return of the birch, which, when "laid on by a chief warder who knew his business, not only gave them a taste of something unpleasant, but led to considerable ridicule." Tory...
Socialism & Standards. Last week the discussion moved to the House of Commons, where Sir Waldron Smithers, Toriest of back-bench Tories, suddenly nourished a nail-spiked cosh. "It is not in order to bring an offensive weapon into the House," boomed the Speaker. "Take it out! Take it out!" shouted Labor members. But Smithers' cosh proved to be a child's toy made of hollow rubber. Said Smithers: "It is a sham, but by filling it with sand it can be made into a lethal weapon." Smithers asked for a ban on coshes. "The increase in violence...
Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, pioneer New Dealer who has long advocated retirement from the Supreme Bench at 70, celebrated his 70th birthday at a dinner party in Manhattan...