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When the Crimson asked Yale All-American Dick Jonron if he sought ravage, he said, "No." When we asked him if his failure to have a good game against Harvard gave him added incentive, he said. "No." And when we asked him if he considered Harvard quarterback Bris Crone, three-time conquerer of Janron teams, to be a nemesis, he said, "No." Jauron's sophomore running mate Tyrol Hennings added, "Nobody but the writers thinks Crone has any special powers over Yale...
...lilt of a good Chassidic niggun!" He speaks of the "irresolute student who apparently wishes to lick the icing of identification without eating the cake of commitment," and, in his final paragraph, he addresses the neo-Hasids directly: "To all of vou neo-Hasids, including myself, I bequeath a Bris [circumcision] with the dull blade of superficiality...
...main difficulty at the present time is to find adequate strokes. True, Bus Curwen is back from last year's undefeated Varsity, but Jayvee stroke Colton Wagner, and Jack, Wilson, who stroked the Varsity at Henley and during the spring of 1940, both graduated, and Bris Hall, Bolles other ranking stroke, is now in the army...
...from the stable. He never returned. As he released the horses he heard a "dreadful roar . . . punctuated with a succession of tremendous crashes." He climbed to the top of the building. He saw his parents waving to him from a window, just before a wall of water and de-bris-"a dark mass in which seethed houses, freight cars, trees and animals"- struck the house, crushed it like an eggshell. With a self-possession unmatched in autobiographical literature, young Victor Heiser took out his watch, noted the time. It was just...
Piecing the tale together from the débris of sloppy obscurantism, childish motivation and antique methods of dramatic narration, reviewers found a fairly simple story: Quin Hanna, "an unscrupulous idealist," goes to a small New England town which for no good reason he decides to convert into a small-bore Utopia, marries a wealthy but vague young woman whom he does not love, gets sick of it, her and himself, is about to decamp when his wife dies. But no matter how frantically the actors called each other harsh names, slapped each other's faces, revealed their inmost...