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...since All-American Larry Kelley and Clint Frank collaborated in their two man touchdown parades back in 1936 has Yale had a Big Three title to gloat over in the long winter months. But optimism is running high in Eli town this week. It's a husky, healthy, hard-hitting Bulldog, with even more than the usual esprit de corps, that is hard at work concecting a warm Blue punch with which to fill the Bowl this Saturday...
...anything a tobacco-chewing Canuck might sputter); and such fifth-magnitude twinklers as Laurence Olivier, Leslie Howard, and Raymond Massey perfume the bill. The only trouble is, there's no suspense. The audience knows that the six are marked men. All it has to do is sit back and gloat while six mouthsful of dust are bitten at pleasantly alternating intervals. The democratic shepherd and his sheep seem so safe from the pranks of these stupid little heilers. But it's fun, if you've had an exam and are feeling mildly sadistic...
Except me. When Franny Lee scored and it began to look as though the thousand and ten Dartmouth men in my home town weren't going to be able to gloat over me at Christmas time, I announced to the world in tones not loud but at least, finish, "Atta boy, Franny...
Perhaps professional jealousy sometimes led Benito to gloat somewhat over Adolf -for Benito well knew that in Russia the ghastly train of Nazi conquest was far behind schedule. But Benito could not have taken very much of this neurotic satisfaction-he also knew that his own fate was linked with Adolf's, that the worries of the German High Command were, most pressingly...
...Malcolm Campbell, who was wearing in court the uniform of a Royal Air Force captain, sat down and wept with his hands over his face. As Mr. Douglas Campbell began to weep too, Lady Campbell shrieked at Sir Malcolm & son: "Don't you gloat over...