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...president of a university has a job about as cozy as a window cleaner's on the Empire State Building. It is public and full of risks. Platoons of alumni, educators, newspapermen, and social seers judge his every act and opinion, be it on academic freedom, the draft, finances, the purpose of higher education, or the size of colleges. President Conant suggests that it takes about six years before a university president finds sitting in his hot seat becomes a habit. Alfred Whitney Griswold, the recently elected president of Yale, considers Conant's appraisal the best encouragement...
...comparing Princeton to Army, Jordan said he thought that Princeton's backs were as fast, if not faster than Army's, but that the Cadet ball carriers as harder and didn't go down so easily. He also commented that Army's blocking was cleaner and crisper...
Every year the life of the U.S. fish gets more hazardous, and-presumably-U.S. thoughts grow cleaner. In 1949, an estimated 25 million citizens tempted him with hook-studded live frogs, gaily feathered flies, and plump, harmless-looking nightcrawlers. The number of U.S. anglers, says Editor Bruce R. Tuttle in his introduction to The Standard Book of Fishing, is even larger...
Philadelphia Bulletin Columnist Earl Selby started the day in a peculiar manner, came down to breakfast one morning with his face unshaven, and wearing the shabbiest clothes he could find. He sprinkled the contents of a vacuum cleaner over himself, then doused himself with stale beer. Selby's slim, red-haired wife Dorothy was not the least bit surprised at this performance...
...Zealand-born Engineer Frank Bell, who has worked four years on the Whizzard, pressed the starter button. The turbine gave a puff of kerosene-scented smoke and whined like a vacuum cleaner. As the whine increased, the car picked up speed. In 14 seconds it reached 60 miles an hour -more than twice as lively as low-priced U.S. cars. The Whizzard has almost no vibration, and it needs no gear shift. The only control pedals are the brake and the foot throttle...