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...Yale contest now pit the country's greatest players against each other in a head-to-head competition, as was the case for three fabulous seasons between 1929 and 1931. In those last glorious days of football at the two colleges Crimson quarterback Barry Wood and Eli halfback Albie Booth staged battles that were watched by every sports fan in the land...
Wood took their initial encounter, kicking the extra point and field goal that gave the Crimson its 10 to 6 margin. Wood won again in 1930. He threw two touchdown passes as Harvard triumphed 13-0. The strong Crimson line bottled up Booth almost completely and, the CRIMSON reported, made him "look like an average back, flashy but unconvincing, ion by Fritz Drill...
...Booth's Revenge...
...Armed Forces Institute of Pathology celebrated :he centennial of its founding as the Army Medical Museum, tourists still admired an Sickles' leg. They could also gape at a lock of Lincoln's hair, a bone sliver from his skull, and bullet-shattered vertebrae from Assassin John Wilkes Booth and President James A. Garfield. But pathology, the study of disease processes, has far outgrown the two rear rooms above the Riggs Bank that first housed the Army Medical Museum. The institute, which is a combined effort of all three armed forces, now serves a score of civilian Government agencies...
Analysts were forced to apply standard political maxims to a situation in which precedents may not apply. All that was certain was that a powerful new factor, unsettling and emotional, would affect the U.S. voter-in ways that even he may not comprehend until he enters the voting booth...