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After two and a half years of sitting on the bench, watching star halfbacks like Bobby Leo and Vic Gatto and just-a-little-betters like Will Stargel and Ray Horn-blower do the playing, Marshall Goldberg will get his chance Saturday...
Three old men are sitting on a park bench in Athens, reading newspapers. The man on the left coughs. The man on the right coughs. The first one spits on the ground. The second one spits on the ground twice. They both sigh. The man in the middle throws his paper away and gets up angrily, saying, "For God's sake, enough political conversation...
...Have you heard the latest? They arrested a man who was accused of making up jokes. They brought him to Pattakos. -- Are you the man who started that joke about the old men sitting on the park bench? -- Yes, my general. -- Did you start the joke about the four meatballs, one of which was a microphone? -- Yes, my general. -- Did you tell the story about the dog who went to Italy so that he could bark freely? -- Yes, my general. -- And why did you do all that? Don't you know this government enjoys the support of 98 per cent...
...delivering his verdict Adlow rapped recent United States Supreme Court decisions regarding obscentity. "The test of obscentity," the white-haired Judge said, pacing back and forth behind his bench, "has been obscured by the casuistry of the higher courts...
...Tigers, who visit Soldiers Field this Saturday, held back some of their stars and still had no trouble wiping out Brown at Princeton. Tiger coach Dick Colman avoided using his starting tailback Rob Weber, and several starting linemen also spent the game on the bench, apparently resting up for the Harvard-Princeton match...