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...corny gag: every game was dedicated to a nicely rounded, nonexistent damsel named Rosie Ragoni. And for Rosie the Navy won. But against the unbeaten and untied Irish of Notre Dame, the team needed stronger magic. It was provided unwittingly by Navy's athletic director, Captain Slade Cutter. The Middies were getting a little tired of his reminders that every game except the Army game was only a practice scrimmage. So, instead of playing for the love of Rosie, they were spurred by their pique with Slade-and learned to their surprise that the former Navy football hero...
Menzel, referring to reports of unidentified objects seen all over the West and by a Coast Guard cutter in the Atlantic, said that the new rash of sightings was "no great surprise." Menzel, who says that he "can see saucers almost any night," and has repeatedly chased them in planes, classed the most recent reports as probable mirages caused by atmospheric disturbances...
...expression. In dealing directly with problems of drawing, via lithography, Barlach's result becomes highly tenuous, unsure, and often completely confused. The same attempt at vitality employed to convey vignettes brutal in subject falters and emerges much weaker in its substitution of the crayon for the chisel or cutter. Faced with a flexibility and opportunity for nuance far greater than that offered in the woodcut process, Barlach's "expressionism" becomes less expressive...
...rainbow as a sudden rain squall cut into the sunlight. Minutes later, the five survivors, of whom the eldest was 24, were safe on board. A sixth, the only man left in the lifeboat that had once held 25, was picked up by the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Absecon. No sign was found of the rest of the 86 Pamir crewmen...
...outdone by Russian high jumpers and their Pogo-stick shoes (TIME, Sept. 9), California's Ernie Shelton got into the act at the University Games in Paris, sported a triangular aluminum cookie cutter on his take-off foot, designed :o give him more "spring action." He inished a low (6 ft. 6 in.) third. Ahead: Russia's Yuri Stepanov (6 ft., 6 in.) and Igor Kashkarov (6 ft. 7 in.), still wearing platform soles...