Word: inheritance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Plot of "Out of Line" centers about a young man, "Jay," played by Allen W. Mathis, Jr. '42, and his friend "Ted,' played by John E. O'Neil, Jr. '42, who inherit a college and also win a half dozen chorus girls in a crap game. In their attempt to rejuvenate the college with their chorines, "Jay" and "Ted" find themselves in a series of amorous and legal dilemmas, from which they finally succeed in extricating themselves...
...press told the people frankly that U. S. sympathy and aid to Great Britain were an actuality. With this news there was cunningly coupled the charge that U. S. aid was designed to lead Britain to her ruin, to the end that the U. S. might inherit the British Empire...
...evidence, he goes to the great apes, nearest kin to man. They show - and inherit - wide differences of personality. Gorillas like to thump their chests. Both gorillas and chimpanzees do crude dances and rhythmic poundings, but orangs and gibbons do not. By people who have studied them closely, gibbons are usually described as shy, gentle, amiable, affectionate. Gorillas are reserved, deliberate, discreet. Chimpanzees are lively, responsive, emotionally unstable. These temperamental differences are obviously not due to variations in the natural habitat, for animals born in captivity manifest them. Moreover, at this stage, differences between individual members of the same species...
...Ghostland (Lippincott; $2.50), Fred Rothermell looks in on similar folk in the Ozarks. The Fulton family of Brooklyn, N. Y. arrives in the drought country to inherit a farm about the time John Steinbeck's Joad family (The Grapes of Wrath) leaves for California. Rothermell's prose is less artificial than Steinbeck's, his Ozark dialect more difficult than that of WPA's Tennesseans. Sample: "I done lak seed a sicknun woming a widdur nur no bline gurl withouten no pappy, but shore ez youah name ez Hogner I makun yourn short a pappy, so help...
Sendak stated, "Anyone can learn the tricks in a couple of hours, including throwing the baton over the goal post, but it does take a great deal of practice." Whoever wins the position will inherit a jinx, for every twirler in the past four years has dropped his stick in the Princeton game...