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Yale won all its 14 points in two events. Sophomore Calvin Hill won the broad jump effortlessly at 24 ft. 8 3 4 in., and teammate Paul Jones was close behind for second place. Powerful Mark Young won the 600. Those two victories were the first scored by an Ivy competitor in the ICIA's in two years...
...this month. In New York City, Stick-up-Man Michael Vignera has already pleaded guilty to a lesser robbery charge, and is now doing 7½ to 10 years in Sing Sing; the first time his sentence was 30 to 60 years. And in Sacramento, Calif., Bank Robber Carl Calvin Westover was found guilty again and sentenced last week to a 30-year term, just as he had been before...
...Yale's Calvin Hill--who spends part of the year as a football star--broke the meet broad jump record with a leap of 24 ft. 6 3/4 in. Hill is amazing to watch. He starts down the runway slowly, weaving from side to side, but when he gets two or three strides from the mark, he explodes, flailing through the air and landing in a cloud of sawdust...
...poorest of Sinclair Lewis' Midwestern novels, written in the late 1920s. Its businessman anti-hero is Lowell Schmaltz, who lives in Zenith, admires George Babbitt, and delivers endless monologues on Calvin Coolidge, cafeterias, motor trips, radio, etc. Coolidge sample: "Maybe he isn't what my daughter would call so 'Ritzy' ... he may not shoot off a lot of fireworks, but you know what he is? He's SAFE...
...from the trees. When he was rude or boorish, hardly anyone could be ruder or more boorish. And so, in recent weeks, after Johnson decided to be remote and aloof, it is not surprising that he has been more remote and aloof than just about any other President since Calvin Coolidge...