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Second Lieut. Felix ("Doc") Blanchard, blockbusting "Mr. Inside" of West Point's great wartime football teams, was busy concentrating on his profession. Learning to fly jet fighters at Williams Field, Ariz., he tried on a crash helmet, just for a moment struck a pose reminiscent of old times...
...march ahead were the old, the women and the smart young Querétaro lawyers who arranged for overnight billeting of the aged and the very important. Among these last was Querétaro's Father Sebastian Berumen. Thin and steelyeyed, he marched in straw sun helmet and knee-length gabardine coat to cover the cassock that by law he is forbidden to wear in public. With him walked his chief aides: Tranquilino González, president of Querétaro's Chamber of Commerce; John Herbert, English owner of Querétaro's ice factory...
...rough game, mainly because the players discovered they could get away with a trip or a slash now and then. However, when Charley Gregg collected a two minute sentence for trying to dent a Tufts player's helmet, most of the Crimson violence evaporated...
...inspect a submarine, turned up later at the enlisted men's beach for his daily dip and a two-hour sunning. The red of his nose was peeling and turning to tan. He lolled in the sand in a T-shirt and white duck trousers, a canvas helmet shading his face. He looked like a man without a care in the world...
Among those who ascended to the starting point high above the village was a local boy, a sturdy, tough-looking Italian, Nino Bibbia, whose father runs a fruit& -vegetable shop in St. Moritz. Nino lay down on the iron framework of his toboggan, crash helmet in place, and shoved off. His "skeleton" (as Alpine tobogganers call their steel-runnered sleds) slithered dangerously down the famous ice chute, whose turns have sporty names like Scylla, Charybdis and Battledore...