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When eleven-year-old Roscoe McGeorge refused to stop playing with cards in the back row of a fourth-grade penmanship class in Cincinnati's Washington Elementary School. Teacher Gayle Graner decided to take appropriate action. She told him to turn over and gave him a paddling. Roscoe's outraged mother had her arrested for assault and battery, but 22-year-old Teacher Graner, though less than a year out of the University of Cincinnati's Teachers College, is not one to be easily intimidated. "Yes. I paddled him," she told reporters. "I have firm ideas...
There are a few uneasy moments at the start, when Ben Graner gushes about "the daring man they said would never come back alive" and how he "threw himself at the mercy of the Pacific." An adventure, as every adventurer knows, is adventurous only in the retelling; and nothing can be so downright dull as three months on a raft. But after Mr. Grauer's hyperbolic foreword, "Kon-Tiki" luckily avoids the perils-of-the-deep, the yoicks-man-overboard, and the eek-it's-a-man-eating-shark, episodes that seem presaged by the opening. It becomes the tale...
...that Osborn will likely start the game behind the bat in place of Waterman. The batting orders: HARVARD. HOLY CROSS. Nash, 1b. 2b., J. Murray Wingate, s.s. 3b., Norton Clark, 2b. s.s., Saunders Ayres, 3b. 1b., Ostregen Gannett, r.f. c.f., O'Brien Hardwick, l.f. l.f., Murphy Milholland, c.f. r.f., Graner Osborn or Waterman, c. c., Carroll Hitchcock or Frye, p. p., Fahey or R. Murray