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...house as young James Bryant Conant, now Harvard's president. Marquand remembers him as a brilliant student who invented the "two-drink dash," a simple game in which a prize was supposed to go to the man who could get by subway to a wine shop in Boston, bolt two drinks and get back in the shortest time. "We spent a good deal of our time doing the two-drink dash, but I don't remember that anybody ever got a prize...
...A.A.C.'s two strongest teams, the Cleveland Browns and the San Francisco 49ers, were supposed to be anxious to bolt and join the old league. Three other A.A.C. teams, having lost close to $500,000 among them last season, were counted ready to quit. Then burly Ben Lindheimer, part owner of the A.A.C.'s Los Angeles Dons, took over. Argued Lindheimer: "People are crazy when they say professional football has reached the saturation point." He insisted that there was plenty of room for two pro leagues...
...Orajet is a 22-inch tube of trans parent plastic with a detachable nozzle on one end and an expansion bolt on the other. The whole thing weighs only two ounces. The user squirts toothpaste (about the same amount usually put on a toothbrush) into the nozzle, puts the other end into a wash basin faucet (it won't work on a Pullman car, not enough pressure). When the water is turned on, a jet of mixed water and toothpaste cleans the teeth. One shot of toothpaste is enough to last all around the mouth...
Harkness' present to Harvard came as a complete surprise. To be sure, a Student Council committee had suggested in 1926 that a House system be established. But when Harkness offered money to Harvard, it came, as President Lowell said, "like a bolt from the Blue." Harkness had previously made important gifts to Yale, but Lowell had never looked to the Eli graduate to make such a substantial gift to Harvard...
Next door, on Soldiers Field, the Leverett Bunnies finally found their scoring punch as they outpassed and outran an understaffed Dudley eleven. The Commuters shot their bolt in the first ten plays of the game, as they sprung a succession of naked and plain reverses on a baffled Leverett line, and scored easily...