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...second period, the Quakers turned war-like, and wound up with five penalties being called against them. A man or more up for almost half the period, Harvard could do no more than crank 13 shots on net and watch Sutton kick, glove or do whatever was necessary to stop them...
...been a long time since the last appearance of this column. I had been writing it every day but apparently one of the "editors" had decided that it was just some more crank mail and just threw it out. So you probably missed the column in which I announced the dedication of the Blodgett Pool and my prediction that Harvard would beat Princeton by less than five points in the subsequent meet. You also missed my prediction of a blizzard that would force Harvard to shut down for three days...
Something of a health-food crank, the Prime Minister thrives on a regimen that includes daily doses of carrot or apple juice, milk, yogurt, honey, fresh fruit, nuts and dates, and five cloves of raw garlic. And one thing more: he drinks his own urine...
...alerts its friends to a particular cause and adds to its converts. In this letter-box war for American minds, the top general is Viguerie, who is considered by friend and foe alike the "godfather" of the New Right. At his office in Falls Church, Va., some 300 people crank out 100 million letters a year (200 million in an election year) to 5 million conservatives whose names are on computer tapes. Says Viguerie: "The left controls all communications except one: direct mail. If Walter Cronkite and Katharine Graham don't think our activities are news, then...
Miniseries Thanks to Roots, the networks are rushing through bestsellers faster than an Evelyn Wood graduate. In addition to Washington: Behind Closed Doors, ABC will crank out mini-series based on Gail Sheehy's Passages and Herman Wouk's The Winds of War. Roots II will follow Kunta Kinte's descendants into modern times...