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When Jones went off for holding soon afterwards. Harvard was on the run. But Owen outraced the Gopher defense to get a loose puck along the right boards and put it by Erickson. Harvard had apparently salvaged...
Entries: a gopher named Broke, a crow named Magnon, a donkey named Hodey, and another donkey (German) named Shane, a rabbit named Transit, a horse named Greeley, a sparrow called Agnew, an asp named Pidistra, an aardvark called A-million-miles-for-one-of-your-smiles. Also, reversing the order, a rat named Frank Lloyd, a collie named Melon, a pair of egrets called Miss Otis. Any more of that from the Caen guru, and his readers will all be like a raven named Stark...
...Pursuit of the Mous, the Snaile, and the Clamm by Mary Durant. Illustrated by Victoria Chess. 247 pages. Meredith. $4.95. Subtitled "a roving dictionary of the animal kingdom," this lighthearted book traces the names of animals back to abstruse origins. (The lowly burrowing gopher, for example, derives from gaufre, the French word for honeycomb.) The illustrations are shaggy dog in style, but accompanying quotations from naturalists, explorers and novelists can be stern indeed. Thus Admiral Jaacob van Neck on the dodo bird, circa 1598: "They have thick heads only partially covered with feathers and in place of wings only...
...M.P.s," groused one provost marshal), he cop-tered to the U.S.S. Benewah, flagship of River Flotilla 1 anchored off the Delta, to pass out Purple Hearts and news from home. "Who won the Minne sota-Michigan game?" asked a Minnesota sailor. "We took them 20 to 15," grinned Old Gopher Humphrey. Jetting up to Phu Bai, a small Marine outpost near the embattled DMZ, he boarded a transport plane for a look at Con Thien and Dong Ha. Circling at 1,500 feet, he Watched Marine artillery fire slam the Communist positions hidden among the craters ("Just like Minnesota...
...Eugene Gant, far from being intimidated by the problem of white flannels, would have his Dacron boxer shorts laundered by the staff of the Americana Hotel. Sinclair Lewis' The Man Who Knew Coolidge would be hospitalized for logorrhea long before his train reached Bumpkinsville. The provincialism of Gopher Prairie and booster clubs, of Mencken's "booboisie" and Lewis' Babbittry, which believed that the outside world began at the end of Main Street and thought of Dante as "that Dago poet," is as dead as the America of button shoes and chicken every Sunday...