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...grads trailed away from the Stadium late Saturday afternoon, even the hardest-bitten had to admit that the 1946 season was a proud one. Alumni have a way of taking traditional rivalries and inflating these matches until entire seasons are made, or broken, by the one Big Game. According to these standards, this fall's slate is very little better than that of other years when the Varsity fell before nearly every power in he east. The importance of this Yale game was accentuated by the resurgent interest of scattered sons of the University who followed the game by wire...
...Another stopper: Said a one-armed man, after a long catechism, ''I'll answer one more question and that's all." The question: "How did you lose your arm?" His answer: "It was bitten...
...rehearsal, the operetta opened in the office of Button, Burton, Bitten and Muchinfuss, where Philmore Updyke Muchinfuss ("known in the trade as old P.U.") was holding a staff conference. The advertising agency needed a sponsor...
...Tenth Bite. In Travancore, India, a villager, bitten nine times by a hooded cobra, bit the snake to death, recovered...
Inner Calls. The study of hum appeal was pure science. More practical was the study of biting habits (female only). The Army learned that skin color makes little difference. A victim's hand bathed in green light was bitten as readily as the same hand bathed in red. Mosquitoes, probably, can see only large masses in black-&-white. They are repelled somewhat by a black or a white shirt, prefer intermediate shades. A female mosquito with eyes removed can find a victim; but with antennae removed, she goes hungry...