Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three Days of Golf. The heavy cruiser nosed up to Baker Dock in Pearl Harbor. Ike stood in the Hawaiian sunshine on the main deck. Tanned and fit, he came ashore to a rousing welcome, complete with honor guard, hula dancers, a lei of red carnations, and a motorcade tour of Honolulu...
...trying to grab a polo shirt from a skinnier comrade. "This will fit me," he yelled, "and this will fit you." Another brother left the piano, and tried to calm the two down. "All the shirts are the same size," he said...
British humorist and onetime M.P. Sir Alan P. Herbert, who recently wrote letters to editors suggesting that harsher punishment should fit the crime of burglary, interviewed a prospective cook who told him that she was not only adept in the kitchen but was most interested in re-reading some of his books. He hired her. After serving one meal, she left, taking with her A.P.'s family silver. Said the police later: the cook, better known as "Mary Jane," had a record of bilking some 50 other households in much the same way. Said A.P.: "It is some consolation...
...what Dr. Hartman considers several preposterous possum legends. But for all its stupidity, the possum, in its sex life, is much like other mammals. After only 12½ days' gestation, the mother props herself into a sitting position and delivers a large litter of tiny (20 can fit into a teaspoon), wormlike young. Still little more than squirming, pink embryos, the baby possums clamber upward over their mother's soft, warm underbelly and into the pouch that opens and closes like an old-fashioned tobacco sack. There they fasten themselves to one of 13 pinhead teats...
...cheerleader Bill Soule '53 didn't like the idea. He felt it wouldn't fit in with the "fight fiercely" tradition...