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Pirnie's century-sprint win over B. C.'s famous Gill Walker was the meet's most notable accomplishment. Walker has hit 9.8 seconds in the past but Pirnie has still not broken a flat 10 seconds. Pirnie's other place came in the 220 dash when he beat B. C.'s co-captain Bill Dowd to the tape. Donahue took his customary firsts in the two hurdle events...
...spirited match that was especially close in the second game, the Eliot House volley team defeated Kirkland House 15-3, 13-15, 15-6. Playing for the Elephants were Dick Sisson, Ken Smith, Don McDonald, Dick Hartwell, Paul Southwick, and Peter Gill...
Professor Arthur Lloyd James of London University is one of the greatest living authorities on the English language and its pronunciation. He taught British Broadcasting Corp. announcers to pronounce Cholmondeley in two syllables (chumly) and Llanfairpwllgyngyllgogerychwryndrobwllllantsiliogogogoch in liquid labials (pronounced Hlan-fair-poohl-gooin-gill-gogery-coorin- dro-boohl-hlant-seeleo-gogo-goch).* He was engaged by the Government to train R. A. F. pilots to speak clearly by radio telephone. His pronunciation handbooks are regarded as standard for the King's English pure and undefiled, and he wrote the Encyclopaedia Britannica article on pronunciation. Declaring that BBC announcers...
...soon as Rancher Gill had been massaged, yanked and kneaded into some semblance of muscular control, had learned all over again how to wash his face, tie his tie, handle a knife & fork, he headed for his ranch in the Amazon jungle. He was in charge of an expedition, financed by Philanthropist Sayre Merrill, 1) to worm from the Indians the black magic of curare cooking, 2) to bring back to the U. S. enough curare for laboratory use, 3) to bring back any other useful drugs from the Indian pharmacopoeia. Rancher Gill succeeded in all three tasks. The best...
Curare's ingredients are still the secret of Medicine Man Gill, a handful of scientists and a jungleful of witch doctors. Others will have to be satisfied with the poetry of the translated Indian names of the plants that yield the poison - the thick-gold-stick; the toucan-tongue; the vine-which-is-like-a-frog; the magic-stick- that-grows-beside-big-waters; roots from the plant-which-talks-in-the-wind...