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These men selecting English 123, Music 1, or Fine Are 13 have over 100 'Cliffedwellers to choose from. Comp. Lit. 166, Hum. 4, English 10, History 130, and Natural Science 3 are also liberally endowed...
...light, Joe Holguin made manual adjustments to keep the crosshairs on the pip that marked his target. Nearly everything was handled by the "K" system, the fabulous new Air Force apparatus that automatically navigates, flies the plane and releases the bomb. From a sounding device came a steady hum. At the precise moment when the "K" system would have released a real bomb, the humming stopped (the descent trajectory of the simulated bomb was plotted for official scoring purposes by electronic equipment on the ground...
Squeaking with enthusiasm, Campy keeps a chatter of encouragement flowing back to the pitcher. "Come on, roomie," he will holler at his road-trip roommate, Don Newcombe. "Hum that pea." Neither Newk nor anyone else is permitted a moment's carelessness. Once, when Don Newcombe crossed up his catcher with a slow curve after taking the signal for a fast ball, Roy promptly flipped off his mask and padded out to the mound. "How come you give me the local when I call for the express?" he demanded in singsong irritation. Campy believes that his chatter helps. Says...
...roomie," came the catcher's high-pitched chatter. "Hum that pea." Big Newk obliged. He took aim, reared back and fired. The ball whistled in. It looked just as small and twice as lively as a drop of water dancing on a hot griddle. All afternoon, the Cards collected only eight hits, turned them into three thin runs. Not a man among them drew a walk. The Dodgers, meanwhile, scored twelve times. In five times at bat the versatile Newk got two singles, a double, and a tremendous homer into the right field stands...
Perkins agreed last night with the Lowell House decision to stage their operetta on the weekend. "Judging from the small number of Lowell House men at our dance last Saturday, I don't imagine you'd get more than a 'ho-hum' out of any Lowell man now if you told him we are not going to have a dance that weekend," he said...