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Died. Charles W. (Charlie) Caldwell Jr., 56, Princeton University's canny head football coach since 1945; of cancer; in Princeton, N.J. A onetime (class of '25) Tiger gridiron great (fullback on the 1922 "Team of Destiny"), Caldwell stubbornly clung to his modern version of the old-fashioned single-wing formation, brought Old Nassau untied and undefeated elevens in 1950 and 1951, won six Big Three (Harvard-Princeton-Yale) championships in six years (1947-52), was voted 1950's ''coach of the year...
Magic & Death Wishes. Biographer Jones, for all his hero worship, belongs to the warts-and-all school, and notes some strange quirks in Freud's character: ¶ Despite his insistence that he was a scientist first and last, Freud clung stubbornly to Lamarck's idea that acquired traits can be inherited-which to serious scientists now makes no more sense than the notion that the earth is flat. ¶ Throughout his life, Freud dabbled with occultism and telepathy. He narrowly avoided publishing acceptance of some weird, spiritistic rigmarole, but he made it plain in private that he believed...
...angry sea poured into the holds to make an expanding porridge of the barley stowed below, those of the Pamir's crew who had escaped the fury of the pounding wreckage clung desperately to nets on the heaved-up windward side of the already sinking ship. When the Pamir went down, just two hours after the storm struck, many of the crew were already dead; some, swimming or clinging to debris in the water, were sucked down as the vessel sank; exhausted, others gave up soon afterward...
...least two generations, Europeans have seen that the U.S. is the greatest economic success story in history. But the men in charge of Europe's economic destinies long clung to the comfortable notion that the U.S. owes her prosperity not so much to superior economic techniques as to the generosity of Providence. Last week, in the two greatest capitals of the Continent, there was increasing evidence that this old assumption was dying, and that Europe, at long last, was prepared to profit by U.S. experience...
...bayou folk swam, clung, gasped and prayed for their lives. Those lucky enough to reach specks of dry land found only more terror: with them were alligators and water moccasins, tossed out of the torrent, snapping and striking in their fury (Mrs. Stephen Broussard lost three children to the tidal wave-and a fourth died of snakebite). In Cameron, a fisherman stumbled sobbing through the streets. His father, his pregnant wife and two children were gone. He was swept into the Calcasieu River-and was rescued to continue his grieving. On the courthouse steps sat a towheaded lad in hand...