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...Gold Nugget. After the football seasons at Fenwick, Johnny found time to 1) captain the basketball team and lead it in scoring for four straight years, 2) win two track letters as a dash man (10.3 for 100 yds., 22.3 for 220). Such athletic prowess did not pass unnoticed by the college football scouts...
...sticking as well as they had earlier in the season, however, although this may be just a left-handed way of saying that Dartmouth had some hard runners. Halfback Lou Turner, called by McLaughry "the best I've got," averaged eight yards a try, including a 56-yard dash...
...specifics. Grandma's recipes aren't any good any more-nor, for that matter, was grandma's food ever very good." Recipes submitted by readers are also better and more precise, "no longer [say just] a 'pinch' of this and a 'dash' of that." Some papers provide their editors with elaborate test kitchens, but most food writers try their recipes at home, must be ready to answer the phone at all hours to rescue a distraught hostess trapped in mid-soufflé. Says Louisville Courier-Journal's Cissy Gregg: "They call...
...however, it was the Communists of Gaggio di Piano who rubbed their hands. Rain-heavy clouds scudded down from the Apennines and broke into a pelting downpour. No speech was possible at the ceremony; after a hasty unveiling, the cardinal gathered his sopping robes around him and made a dash for the rectory. But Don Giuseppe had his reward. Through the streaming rain and into the church for Mass, then out again into the drenched square, came almost 800 men. women and children-the biggest congregation the priest had ever seen in Gaggio di Piano...
...find that with unpacking, registering, and Phillips Brooks Tea Dances their programs are a course or two shy of the minimum. These are not guts, but rather worthwhile courses fortunately free of prerequisites. Chosen for the interesting material they cover, any one of them can add the necessary dash of diversity to an otherwise dull program...