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Smuts & Sophistication. "The world was waiting. Waiting for me, to whisper my incantation 'I am George Emlyn Williams and . . .' I was lying with my head on my fist on morning grass, dry of dew and warm with the first heat of the year. Spring smells and earth feelings crept into my seven-year-old body; nine-tenths innocent, one-tenth conscient. it responded. I rolled one cheek up till it closed an eye, and squinted down at the sunlit village...
...Wilt Chamberlain (7 ft. 2 in.). Boston's Carl Braun and Philadelphia's Guy Rodgers squared off in a brief scrap that brought hundreds of spectators onto the floor. Once that was over, Rodgers picked a new target: Jim Loscutoff, one of the burliest Celtics of all. Fist fights started so often that the league's roly-poly President Maurice Podoloff slapped fines on five players...
...held her and her fellow hostages for $30 million ransom. But one of Daddy's aides hanged the General and herded Annie and company through a secret passageway to the Warbucks yacht. There, Daddy declaimed the moral: "I recall Teddy Roosevelt's advice! 'Never shake your fist and then shake your finger! That is the sort of Americanism I think an awful lot of us admire...
...joint right over our heads beneath the sacred dome." Cried Powers: "He had a radio there. He had 'green sheets' there. People gathered there. There is no question in my mind." Powers' suspicions of State House gambling were aroused when he had to break up a fist fight between two Senate pages who were battling over their cut of the take from relaying senatorial bets. "I began gambling a long time ago," admitted Connolly, "and I found I had plenty of company in the legislature. The Republicans gamble and the Democrats gamble." Later, Connolly claimed...
...freshman contest at Hanover, the Crimson held off a two-goal rally by Dartmouth late in the game to edge the Indian fresmen, 3 to 2. Baldwin Smith, center on the Yadlings' fist line, scored twice...