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Briefly, Valpey has a strong end corps, headed by Sophomore Bob DiBlasio; a potential all-American tackle in Howie Houston (he was included this month on several national all-American listings); four evenly-matched centers; and a flock of adequate backs...
...great flock of pigeons roosted in the Stadium during the summer, and now it is going to take 15 men three days to clean up after them...
...Tighteners? A few days later, when the Chemical Society held a second regional meeting at St. Louis, its president, Dr. Charles Allen Thomas of Monsanto Chemical Co., gave his flock a timely talking to. He did not come right out and call the chemists dodos, but he warned them that overspecialization (the nemesis of the dodo) might make their science stagnate...
Kittens & Kangaroos. The callers who flock to Grandma Moses' upper New York State farm at Eagle Bridge (there were 500 of them last summer) might seem a chore to someone else, but Grandma loves having them. She also enjoys showing off the snapshots they sometimes leave with her. "Now this," she will remark, "was a very nice family from Ohio . . . This poor girl lost her kitty just before she came .. . This was a woman all the way from Australia. She brought me a kangaroo skin and a hula skirt...
...moviegoers flock to Betty's pictures with an ardent persistence they have never offered to other stars of greater beauty and larger gifts? Betty Grable, long-shanked, blue-eyed, 5 ft. 3½ in., no pounds, knows one answer. "Girls," she says, "can see me in a picture and feel I could be one of them." A wag with a parody spoke for the male audience when he sang, with no perceptible rancor toward Betty's bandleader husband...