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Journey was a semiautobiographical story of a doctor, known in the book as Ferdinand Bardamu. "I have spent so many years as a doormat in the service of so many thousands of madmen that my memories alone would fill a whole insane asylum," Céline said. The novel was such an asylum. It seemed less a novel than a charade by a troupe of epileptics-convulsed by spasms of lust, rage, fear and disgust but denied the unconsciousness that is the mercy accorded the epileptic. It was clear to most critics that it was a work of genius...
...grandstand finish occured when Eliot seemingly doomed as also-rans came from behind to beat Adams House in double overtime last Friday. Forerunner Jeff Jordan booted in the winner, what turned out to be Eliot's biggest goal of the season. The Elephants scraped up 11 men to beat doormat dudley in the first game Monday and then watched the seemingly impossible happen...
...that S.E.C. schools pay more; they offer the usual free ride: room, board, tuition and textbooks, plus $10 per month "laundry money." They just spend more. Alabama, for instance, awards 120 football scholarships a year compared with a maximum of 35 for Notre Dame. Even Vanderbilt, a perennial conference doormat-partly because it is the only S.E.C. university that does not offer majors in either "recreation" or physical education-awards 98. S.E.C. recruiting is also "tremendously polished," according to one man who ought to know: Alabama's Attorney General Richmond Flowers, whose son, Tennessee Halfback Richmond Flowers...
...terror in Ivy play, but the Big Red's 1-2 record still beats Harvard's 0-3. Nevertheless the Crimson should come out on top. Princeton bombed Cornell 18-9 but barely slipped by Harvard, 14-13. Cornell's lone win was against impotent Yale, the League doormat...
...GUARDS: John Niland, 21, Iowa, 6 ft. 3 in., 240 lbs., and Stan Hindman, 21, Mississippi, 6 ft. 3 in., 235 lbs. Usually the pros resign themselves to making guards out of college tackles, because college guards are too small. Not this year. Iowa was the doormat of the Big Ten, but Niland still drew raves from 14 pro teams. Hindman, the scouts marvel, "can play any offensive or defensive position in the line, and he is as fast as most fullbacks...