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...Squeaky gets the wildest huzzahs for all that: he stands only 5 ft. 8½ in. Crowds, watching him warm up amid the towering giants who dominate today's basketball, expect him to be reduced to a puddle of watery chowder within minutes. Instead he makes all but the cleverest of his tall opponents look like croupy giraffes. He fizzes with belligerence, is deceptively strong (he weighs 172 Ibs.) and amazingly agile; with four years of high-school basketball, 18 months of Army basketball and two years of college play behind him, he has the faultless instincts...
...already developed a taste for a Boston specialty, New England clam chowder, but his favorite dishes are still pot-au-feu and kidneys cooked with Chablis. "You see," says Madame Munch, "he has a modest taste." He likes a good nip of Scotch, is amazed that he has been unable to find good Alsatian vintages...
...rowing for the Union Boat club propelled by five ex-varsity Harvard crowmen, two ex-jayvees, and an assistant dean. The whole event is being filmed in color. The race is not the opening regatta is simply a three quarter mile informal jaunt across the Charles basin to a chowder lunch at the boat club before the Dartmouth game...
When the drinks (excellent as always) and the fish chowder (pungent and tasty) had been disposed of, a joyous soul arose and cried, "Is there a Yale man in the house?" The band, cleverly revealed on the balcony, burst into Ten Thousand Men of Harvard." The logic of this was sublime compared with what was to follow...
...chowder and apple pie were delicious: Herman would have enjoyed himself, the more so since the meeting followed one of his cardinal rules: "I plan to keep the alumni sullen, but not rebellious...