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...Buffett does a 6-minute monologue called "God's Own Drunk," wherein the hero is guarding a still, gets overcome by temptation, takes a few slashes, commences to get hot flashes, metamorphoses into God's Own Drunk and a fearless man, then sees "The Bear...a Kodiak-looking feller, bout 19 feet tall," who rambles over and "looks me in the eyes, and mine were a lot redder than his. It hung him up." It's not enough because the spell is shattered--Buffett succumbed just once, but it's shadow of things to come...
...quarterfinals, Simmons helped eliminate another fencing heavyweight from the meet, as he defeated George Mason, a former U.S. Olympic fencer, in a preliminary bout...
...freshman oarsman lay sprawled on the Newell boathouse floor. The ergometer (rowing machine) he had challenged to a five-minute bout had gallantly thrown him to the floor before relinquishing its dying gasp. Its life line, in the form of a broken cable, had been severed. The Erg was dead...
Tepe continued his winning ways into the second round and picked up some help along the way when John Chipman successfully crossed swords with his opponent. Bennett won again and Vastola regained his form, but Yale's Stanley Ng, enroute to a three bout sweep, outdueled Major to get the Elis back on track...
...second, the handwriting was on the wall. The writing became even more legible when foiler Bennett was cut down by Ng. Major tied the match at 13 apiece, to set the stage for what one fencer termed "the best day in Danny Snyder's life." Snyder won the next bout 5-4 to give Yale the match...