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Joining Lewis on the first cager team were Penn's Dave Wohl and Corky Calhonn. Dartmouth's Paul Erland, and Princeton's Brian Taylor. Undefeated in League play, Penn had four of its starting five on the first two teams. Quaker reserve Phil Hankinson received honorable mention...
...breakfast with Singer, his wife, Rabbi Gold from Hillel House, and a friend who was cager to meet Singer, I realized why the author seemed so familiar. I.B. Singer looks like anybody's grandfather. His white, parchment-like skin stretched tightly over the bones of his skull contrasts sharply with his somber black suit. His head is smooth and round: only a few stray wisps of hair above the temples soften the sharp contours of his face. An clongated depression down the back of his skull reminds one of an infant's delicately shaped head. Singer radiates a childlike innocence...
...cager to talk about the future. He has not won the Nobel Prize, but, after laughingly admitting that "it's always niceto get the cash," he said. "One doesn't think about these things." Superstitious, he would not talk about planned work, commenting, "You never talk about the things you're going to do. You might talk them away and never do them...
...recent voter registration drive in Marion, and on February 18 he joined 400 others in an evening protest march. State troopers used nightsticks and cattle prods to break up the demonstration. Newspaper reporters saw dozens of Negroes chased and clubbed in the moonlit streets. Among those beaten was Cager Lee, Jackson's 82-year-old grandfather; Lee was later hospitalized with open scalp wounds and bruises...
Around them flocked William McKeon, the vain, insecure State Chairman who owed his office to Wagner but felt the Mayor treated him like a "file clerk;" Stanley Steingut, a Wagner enemy who was cager to be the Assembly's Speaker; several upstate leaders seeking a more influential role; and two pragmatic reformers from New York City's West Side, impatient for advancement and irritated by Wagner's indifference. As the coalition's efforts seemed to approach success, others desirous of a share of the legislature's $4.3 million patronage joined...