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Such early-season skill was not easily come by. For two tough training weeks in Oklahoma's late-summer heat, Coach Bud Wilkinson had been driving his men to the ragged edge of exhaustion. Up each day before dawn, a leather-tough squad of 58 Sooners-including a nucleus of 20 veterans-had been busily belting each other groggy. The Wilkinson split-T breaks down into intricate offensive patterns, but the Wilkinson formula for success is simple: "Sweat, sweat, and more sweat." The Sooners sweated. Hour after hour. Quarterback Gene Calame pirouetted through a series of fakes to perfect...
Died. Harry Conway ("Bud") Fisher, 69, creator of the comic strip Mutt and Jeff; of cancer; in Manhattan. Starting in 1907 with a sports-page cartoon about a chinless horse-race tipster named Augustus Mutt, Fisher added runty, harebrained Jeff four months later, made a merry fortune (at his peak in the '20s he earned $300,000 a year) whirling them around on a ceaseless merry-go-round of fights, skulduggeries and amiable confusion...
...young girls, exquisitely suggestible, divide as the pair has divided, some du cote de Mlle. Julie, the others devoted to Mlle. Cara-all innocently, giddily suspended in the nameless tension of the emotional contest. As it fills every room and scene with the breath of girls in the bud, with an air of girlish whispers, forbidden perfume and muffled laughter. Pit of Loneliness falls nothing short of magic...
Flocks of robins flew up from the sycamore branches. A male and female American merganser were flushed from the riverbank and swooped over the valley. Purple finches bustled in the branches. The call of the titmouse was clear from the field. The spice bushes were in bud, and along the banks of the Potomac the willows were greening. Red maple was already painting the woods. From the bog water in the old unused canal came the song of peeper frogs...
...their way along the face of a rock wall, stepping on a 6-in. plank held in place by ancient iron spikes. But eventually the sun came out. Robins flew up from the sycamore branches; the call of the titmouse came clearly from nearby fields. Spice bushes were in bud, and peeping frogs sang in the bog water of the old canal...