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...Jasper Symmes '52 last month convinced Jasper McKee '51 to aid him in an extensive survey of metaphysics. The first real experiment, scheduled for this week, was to be an attempt to make contact with the devil. Symmes explained that the ritual involved drinking the blood of a white dove at midnight on a windswept field...
Dave Aloian dove over the chalk for the first Winthrop score. The second Puritan tally was made from their own 30 yard line, with Harvey Thayer escorted by his blockers through the Dudley defense for 70 yards to enter the end zone. Bob Cameron ran over the last two puritan touchdowns...
Early on Sunday morning, he stopped at the Uvalde home of aging (79), still chipper John Nance Garner. "Cactus Jack" had spread a super-Texas breakfast: orange juice, mourning dove, white-winged dove,* chicken, rice and gravy, ham, bacon, scrambled eggs, biscuits, honey, preserves, pecans, coffee. Harry Truman ate some of everything in sight, said it was the biggest breakfast he had had in 40 years. Nothing was said of politics, but everybody got the idea: Jack Garner, that most conservative Southerner, was for Harry Truman...
...spread to the U.S. in the '20s. The most artlessly forthright paste-up in last week's show was made by Arthur Dove in 1925. Entitled Grandmother, it consisted of a needlepoint embroidery, a few shingles, a page from the Bible, a pressed flower and fern. But, except among commercial artists (who have found it useful), the trick never caught on in the U.S. as it did in Europe...
Prescription. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Bertha Burton Adams assured the superior court that she felt her life of "drudgery and trouble" would take a turn for the better if she were allowed to change her name to Gentle Dove...