Word: highnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...farm club for professional sports, in theory anyway. Sports in college, therefore, is a diversion engaged in without animosity or dirty playing, regardless of talent. Economically favoring the athlete is prostituting that purpose. What about the boy who is refused admittance because of athlete preference? I knew a high school boy who got polio right after he was picked as the best baseball player in the diocese of Brooklyn. At least 6 feet tall, his body was conspicuously atrophied. To pick an athlete in preference to this boy, or one like him, would be to continue a time-honored American...
Conrad Hilton thinks such a future is fine and he plans to start making it come true by building high-priced, small hotels in the smaller cities which were passed over in the hotel-building '20s. He is now eyeing land in Atlanta, Beverly Hills and Havana. But he does not think that anyone will ever again build huge hotels like those he gobbled up in the last few years. Nor does he expect to buy any more big ones, at least not right away. With the air of a tired conqueror he asks: "After all, where...
...book is good & bad in about the same proportions as the book itself. Unfortunately, poets are not necessarily the best readers of their work. Poetess Moore reads her verse as if she had just been frightened by a ferocious rabbit, Poetess Elizabeth Bishop as if she were a bored high-school sophomore, Poet Cummings as if he were an English gentleman slightly repelled by his own rowdy verses, and Poet-Physician William Carlos Williams as if he were droning out a prescription for a head cold...
Fallibility. In Port Jervis, N.Y., the repair man called in to fix the cigarette machine at police headquarters found it jammed by ten phony coins. In Powell, Wyo., Patrolman Warren Schrofel, after lecturing to 400 high-school students on traffic problems, paid a $2 fine for parking near a hydrant...
John Rockwell was again high scorer for the varsity with 25 points, but he was handcuffed by a tight Navy defense in the first half. The Middies concentrated on close man-to-man guarding and their passing was fast and accurate they scored effectively from the outside. Two minutes from the start of the game they had picked up a seven point lead...