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...highest forms of civilization must develop in temperate climates. If a country is too cold, they say, its people have to struggle too hard just to stay alive. If it is too hot, they relax into slow-moving lassitude. Chief exponent of this theory was Yale's Professor Ellsworth Huntington, who lived in New Haven, Conn. He decided that the climate of Connecticut is ideal for culture...
...Ward Ellsworth Swarthout is a stocky little (5 ft. 6 in., 135 Ibs.) motor bug. As a peacetime Army pilot in the '20s, he flew airplanes for a while, but gave them up as "too dangerous." Swarthout found a substitute in something closer to the ground by turning auto racer in big (270 cu. in. cylinder displacement), standard racing cars, then gave them up for earth-hugging midget (up to 145 cu. in.) racing. Last week, at Brawley, Calif., 50-year-old Ward Swarthout, now a grandfather, was happily racing just a couple of inches off the ground...
Dennis hitting on eight or 17 field goal attempts, was hot from the corner; Condon, allowing the speedy Ellsworth Morgan a mere eight points, was great all over the court. And the other half of Yale's deadly one-two punch, Captain Spence Schnaitter, was hold to but six points by tech combination of a bad ankle and the tight guarding of Dick Manning...
...Globetrotter-type ace is guard Ellsworth Morgan, who has sparked the Blue fast break all season. "He can do anything with the ball," notes varsity coach Norm Shepard, and this is the reason Shepard will make guard Ed Condon, an exceptional defensive player, responsible for Morgan...
...years ago today, Ellsworth P. Van Rensselaer Jones, a former Crimed, punctured his esophagus with the metatarsal bone of a turkey as he tripped over a rock at Plymouth. In fitting memory to this valiant biology editor, there will be no Crime tomorrow...