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...Harvard team made little headway and was forced to kick the ball for coffin corner. On the Green's second play in returning the ball, it was fumbled and recovered by a Harvard player on the thirteen yard line. This time the Crimson offensive was effective, and culminated in having Art Rowe dash over the line for the first and last touchdown of the game. Lacey's kick for conversion went wide of the uprights, and the score stayed...
After watching the last nail hammered into the coffin of 1938 baseball (see p. 49), U. S. citizens last week turned their attention toward the wriggling three-weeks-old college football season. Monday-morning-quarterbacks began to appraise this year's players, prognosticate what teams would finish on top of the heap around Thanksgiving...
MAINE BALLADS-Robert P. Tristram Coffin-Macmillan ($2). Poet Coffin thinks that "the materials for ballads are still being made up every day out of the whole cloth of human nature." This good-tempered, able-bodied collection of folksy poems, is made up out of some State-of-Maine-colored fragments from human nature's rural...
Last week Devil's Advocate Natucci journeyed to a Manhattan Catholic high school named for Mother Cabrini. In a coffin in the chapel-crypt lay her body, removed there from a cemetery five years ago after being identified and reported "well-preserved" - an aid but not an essential to beatification. Last week Monsignor Natucci, his entourage and a few necessary witnesses beheld a second exhumation of Mother Cabrini. At some secret later time, the Devil's Advocate was to sever from the body a limb (which limb would not be revealed) - a "first-class" relic which he would...
Last week in Cincinnati a glass-topped metal casket was on view. Flower sprays were banked by the coffin. Nearby was an oil painting of the deceased. In two days 1,000 mourners filed silently past. The deceased: King, a German shepherd, one of the two first guide dogs in the city. Reason for the fuss: King had been poisoned. Such a wave of sympathy followed King's death that Cincinnatians saw hope for a $10,000 farm where guide dogs could be trained (as at The Seeing Eye, Morristown, N. J.) to lead Cincinnati's 550 blind...