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...first try, and blamed it on the blondes present. The singers banked themselves once more behind the keyboard, the control room buzzed for silence and this time Jimmy read his little speech without a slip. Then the stars from the Met, helped out by pop singers Perry Como and Fran Warren, did their little turn...
...Harvard's sacrosanct Varsity Club, the Harvard first team sipped champagne-an old pre-game ritual. By tradition, the first toast is given by the captain of the last Harvard team to whip Yale (Fran Lee of the '41 team). But Lee failed to show up, and a substitute was pressed into service. It may have been a favorable omen. Next afternoon, on the first play of the game, a crimson-shirted Harvard halfback cut back through tackle and raced 80 yards to a touchdown...
Paced by backs Bill Borah and Hugh Raphael, and end Louie Garelick, Straus downed Weld South 18 to 0. Borah and Raphael both tossed touchdown aerials by hitting Fran McCoy and Garelick respectively...
Straus oked out a narrow 12 to 8 decision over Thayer "South." Hugh Raphael hit Tom Fraher and Fran McCoy with touchdown serials to give Straus both its scores, while Jack Murphy heaved a six-pointer to Jack Kreps for the Southmen of Thayer. The losers also got two points in the last quarter on a safety when Kreps nabbed Raphael behind the goal...
...nearly 300 years, Laval University had been almost as grim and ascetic as its founder, François de Montmorency-Laval de Montigny, first bishop of Quebec. The bishop wore a hair shirt, watered his soup, slept on wood. The university, which De Laval started as a seminary in 1663, was cramped into narrow, grey stone buildings in Quebec City's huddled Quartier Latin. Its curriculum concentrated on theology, law and medicine. For diversion, students were expected to turn to religious reading or take meditative walks in the walled courtyard of the university...