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...Mythology. By the hundreds they have swarmed across a hundred thousand movie screens from Aliquippa to Zagazig -mice that talk and grubs that chainsmoke, squirrels wearing overalls, bashful bunnies, sexy goldfish, tongue-tied ducks and hounds on ice skates, dachshunds bow-tied, pigs at pianos, chickens doing Traviata-even worms that do the cootch...
...London's musty Bow Street court, crowded with Polish exiles, Shawcross in effect put the Polish government itself on trial. Said he: "These men are charged with what amounts to mutiny ... It might have been revolt on the high seas, but it was political revolt against political tyranny on a vessel being run by a political officer with more powers than the captain." He introduced as evidence a persuader found in the political officer's cabin-a spring-handled bludgeon. "It seems a curious form of political argument," said Shawcross dryly...
...hardest blow to physical education came two years ago, in the spring. On the last day of sports, a promising freshman thwarted Miss Clarke's expectations as a gym teacher. This budding young athlete, overjoyed at finishing her requirement, flung away her bow, broke six arrows, shot the remainder in the direction of a nearby Cambridge urchin, and ran gleefully off the Quad, screaming, "I'm never going to do anything athletic again--EVER...
...tied 7-7 at half time. In the second half the Buckeye fans started singing the Ohio State song, which is Momma Loves Poppa. This haunting old college song sure did stir up those Ohio State players. Right away you could see them stiffen their backs and begin to bow their necks. I guess those State players got to .thinking that they didn't want to be hearing all winter how the Little Women had missed a trip to Los Angeles just because they weren't men enough to beat us Wolverines...
Patrick started the controversy when he posted a set of rules defining freshman dress. "A coat is hereby defined to be a suit coat. A jacket, sweater, extra shirt, etc., does not qualify," writes Patrick. "A tie is defined as a four-in-hand tie or a bow tie. Shoe string ties do not qualify, nor do searfs," he continued. Patrick contends that "the Harvard freshman has lost his sartorial splendor...