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...just want to remark that Nehru is either too stubborn or a fool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LETTERS | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

...talk for food, announcing to startled householders that "I am the sole active member of the ancient brotherhood of the troubadours." Back in Springfield, townspeople snickered; later he was to say, "People thought I fought for fame, but I only fought my way through from being the town fool and the family idiot.'' It was a long fight; Lindsay was 33 when Harriet Monroe printed General Booth (with its parenthetical instructions for bass drum, banjo and flute accompaniment) in her Poetry Magazine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poet of Springfield | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

Before a game, Schwartzwalder gives his team a mild tongue-lashing as a stimulant but avoids oldtime histrionics. "If Knute Rockne came into my locker room and gave one of his fight talks, the kids would laugh him right out of the place," he says. "You can't fool them. When I was a player, Greasy Neale tried to tell us three weeks running to go out and win the game for his dying mother. And there she was every game, sittin' up in the stands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Boys from Syracuse | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

Junior Weekend in Philadelphia gives the students a chance to display their dinks, buttons, or skimmers. The festivities started Thursday with the traditional Cane Walk, in which the juniors parade around the campus wth bought ($1.30) or borrowed canes that symbolize the advancement from a wise fool to an to an upperclassman. A pep rally followed that night. On Friday night the Junir Prom took place, replete with Prom Queen and all the trappings. The fraternities made posters for the Navy football game, and a group of blazered, skimmered Penn humorists trotted out a she-goat with a sign saying...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Pennsylvania Balances Actuality Against Hope of Valued Learning | 10/30/1959 | See Source »

...lofted a 25-yard crossing shot overs the arms of Tom Bagnoli to give B.U. a 1-0 lead. Keyes was playing with his right leg heavily taped and with orders to avoid contact. Even so, he was indispensable to the Crimson; Katuschenko was the only man to fool him all afternoon...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Soccer Team's Comeback Drive Overtakes Tough Terriers, 4-1 | 10/8/1959 | See Source »

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