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...swarms from France and Switzerland. In Venice, St. Mark's square looked as though all of Harvard had been transferred there for the summer term, and if you got lost in the incredible tangle of streets and canals in other parts of the city, it was a sure bot you could spot a seersucker jacket and follow it back to familiar ground...
However, the many upsets and the lack of a consistent winner during the past wrestling season indicate that the tournament will be wide open with no one team a sure bot to take the championship. Cornell, Navy, Princeton, Penn State, and Syracuse are all strong at certain weights and any one of them may be able to place enough of their seeded men among the top three in their class and thus gain the title...
Seems that Gold and his friend John R. Hutchison, Jr. '47 were bot to the tune of $15 that they couldn't drink seven quarts for beer in seven hours. Only condition of the "sporting preposition" was that the brew would have to stay down until all seven quarts were consumed...
...another, John and Anna Boettiger (pronounced Bot-igger) are determined to get back into publishing. Last week they bought the Buyers Guide, a Seattle advertising throwaway. They planned to make it over into a newspaper such as Hearst's Post-Intelligencer was during their un-Hearstian tenure. In Phoenix, the gradual conversion of the Boettigers' newly purchased Shopping News (TIME, March 11) was under way; they had changed the name to Arizona Times...
...done a good job of pulling himself up by his bootstraps. He first took over the Cards in 1929, and Degan by putting his foot in his mouth. The first day he read a highhanded riot act to the club, and Veteran Chick Hafey whispered to tobacco-chewing Jim Bot-tomley, "Don't look now, but there's a hell on the job." Southworth got fired in midseason...