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Another student, Theodore Rose '54, elaborated on the story. "The cops piled on him," he said," two holding and three hitting. They used clubs freely, and he had a gash on the side of his face. The cost of his ROTC uniform was open and the buttons ripped...
...nearly dawn when two men stumbled into the emergency room, followed by a quartet of policemen and detectives. Both men were bruised and dirty; one was bleeding from an ugly gash on the back of his head, the other from a wound in his temple. Both were drunk, and they were carrying on a loud harangue in Serbian. They had been found beaten and half-conscious on a dark street on Chicago's West Side...
...understand how even the immature Poonmen could have been guilty of such bad taste and vulgarity. President Lowell's letter to Princeton's President Hibben made the only possible apology -- that the Lampoon's lack of sense of humor is apt to be replaced by grossness. But the gash torn by the blundering Poon was too deep to heal quickly, and on November 10th, 1926, Princeton suspended athletic relations with Harvard. To make matters worse, an article called "Dirty Football" appeared in a national magazine soon afterwards. This article attempted to prove that Princeton had been playing dirty football...
Then, in the first seconds of the tenth, the two fighters collided in mid-ring. Robinson backed off, blood streaming from a 1½-inch gash above his left eye. As he said in the dressing room afterward, he knew then it was "do or die." He charged in with both arms driving, shook Turpin with a right uppercut, then floored him with another...
Monsarrat's story is "of one ocean, two ships, and about a hundred and fifty men." It begins late in 1939, when the corvette Compass Rose, "a fiddling bloody little gash-boat," is commissioned. A few halcyon runs, and then the U-boats come. On one ghastly trip to Gibraltar, a convoy of 21 merchantmen is reduced to seven-a slaughter with all too many counterparts in wartime reality...