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...member of our local high-school football squad would have helped the Queen with her wrap, and possibly would have given her a little pat on the back afterwards. We certainly would have slapped the Duke down in the meantime. E. C. McMULLEN Pine Bluff...
...auditorium of Winthrop College (Rock Hill, S.C.), some 1,500 high-school kids gathered one morning last week for a strange affair. They had come from all over the state, chatting and giggling as merrily as if they were about to see a circus. What they actually did see was apparently just as entertaining-even though it bore the ponderous title of Fourth Annual Latin Forum...
...these days who just are not the old eating-club type. "It was clear that of the eligibles who had difficulty this year [getting into clubs], almost every one came alone from a high school in the New York-New Jersey metropolitan area. These men, though they had excellent high-school grades, did not have a social background which would fit them into the Princeton system...
...alumni did not really mind his emphasis on brains, but they heartily resented his neglect of brawn. He flatly refused to recruit athletes, forced the Denver Pioneer Club to stop talent-scouting for high-school stars, frowned on the weekly pep luncheons of the Quarterback Club. Annual attendance at football games fell from 110,000 to 50,000, and at one game hit a low of 3,500. Last year things got so bad that D.U. lost every one of its seven Mountain States Conference games...
...Cleveland, Rio Grande's Basketballer Bevo Francis sank 54 points against Wilberforce (final score: 109-55), paced his team to its 39th straight victory this season. Winding up with an intercollegiate record of 1,954 points, the skinny freshman, who just got his delayed high-school diploma a month ago, announced: "Now I'm taking off to hit the books." ¶In Baton Rouge, with a splendid 13-under-par 275, Sammy Snead, back on the tournament trail, whipped the field by three strokes for the $10,000 Baton Rouge Open...