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Sugar-Coated Pill. Vercors counterpoises Sylva's struggle upward with the sordid decline of Richwick's sometime girl friend into a drug-addicted, sexually perverted mindlessness. After a dash of degradation with her in London, Richwick escapes to come back home as a love-smitten Pygmalion to his Galatea-who turns out to be pregnant...
Freshman Aggrey Awori could make national headlines. He is entered in the 50-yard dash against Frank Budd of Villanova, and after turning in a 4.5 40 earlier this week, Awari is a threat to beat anyone, anywhere. Awori may also go in the hurdles, where again he is a first-place contender...
Aggrey Awori tied the Briggs Cage 40-yard dash record with a 4.5 clocking Tuesday as the freshman track team easily defeated Huntington School, 75 to 11. Awori also equaled the Cage mark for the 40-yard hurdles, 5.2, but the race was run with the barriers at the schoolboy height...
...that was widely plagiarized and wound up as a footnote to history: "One day I wrote that President Millard Fillmore had lent encouragement to Samuel F. B. Morse, the inventor of the telegraph, and that out of gratitude Morse had named the characters of the Morse code, dot and dash, after Fillmore's children, Dorothy and Dashiell. That turned up in a national magazine [Coronet] as a perfectly straight bit of historical fact. It isn't given to many men to louse up history...
...nearest back for the same purpose. Recording presidential talks in the White House rose garden -a favorite informal speaking site-is Romagna's pet chore: "Provided the speech is not too long, I can take it down, run the 50 yards to my office and transcribe it. dash into the mimeo room and have 50 copies made, and run back up to the rose garden in time to hand them out to the press as the ceremonies are concluding...