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...House List: Pf-air. The Pf-open list is a pf-orum for pfohosers to add a "pf" in pf-ront of every pf-reaking word that begins with an "f." We get it. "Pfoho" has a silent "p." Not that pf-ucking pf-unny after the pf-irst pf-ifty times...
...Rink didn’t rise to the level of last season’s four-goal come-from-behind victory, but that won’t ease the sufferings of the again-thwarted Bulldogs (3-17-1, 2-12-0 ECAC), who twice held the lead in the irst period against heavily favored Harvard (12-5-2, 9-4-1) only to cough it up within 43 seconds on both occasions...
...already cost the jobs of 20,000 teamsters. To fight the rails, he is pushing a new "tax" on truckers, requiring them to pay $5 into the union's welfare or pension funds, beginning next year, for every truck they Diggy back. Hoffa has already signed the irst such contract with Midwest truckers...
...many art buffs recall Charles Willson Peale's oil painting, Exhuming the F irst American Mastodon (1806-08), nor do many readers know Royall Tyler's novel. The Algerine Captive: or, The Life and Adventures of Dr. Updike Underhill (1797). Much American music of that period is equally obscure, but equally evocative in its titles and equally appealing to the imagination if given half a chance. Manhattan's Society for the Preservation of the American Musical Heritage is providing that chance in a series of 20 recordings, giving voice to some 25 little-known U.S. composers...
...point to point. Not a great deal of figuring was needed to award first prize to Pilot Walter Beach and his Wright-motored Travel Air No. 2. With perfect equipment, and higher speed than most, he had been able to leave the stopping places last and arrive at destinations irst; also, he was aided by an able navigator, Brice Goldsborough of the Pioneer Instrument Co. Notable was the failure of the trimotored Ford all-metal entries to finish. Flying one of these, Pilot R. W. Schroeder had the misfortune to chip a propeller, resulting in terrific vibration in that motor...