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Steve Owen and Dan Demichele contributed two goals apiece and with line-mate Joe Cavanaugh skated circles around the Husky pups. John Alessandroni and Dave Opsahl scored the other Harvard goals...
...finest of Axten's saves--a diving grab of a grasscutter aimed at the far corner--came in the first period, Yale's strongest. Two minutes after that try, Crimson captain Joe Gould robbed Yale's left wing of an open-net, point-blank shot with a lunging deflection of a perfect center which had passed Axten...
...Joe Sandwich, the hero of The Vale of Laughter, has his own way of saying it: "Well, a man's got to believe something, and I believe I'll have another drink." Joe is the sort who, for the sake of a gag and to be included in a rich uncle's will, names his son Hamilton. And to prove that the block is still for chipping, young Ham Sandwich at eight names a honky-tonk for the middle-aged "The Slipped Discotheque...
...Joe, like most De Vries heroes, is a wit who can't get with it-it being the way of the world. Nothing really odd about him, though he does remark that "Christ and the Jews of his time were working at cross purposes." Joe wants to do good, and he tries. But the girl he kept in stitches as a suitor soon gagged on his wit as a wife. When her father took him into his brokerage office, watching the tape made him physically dizzy, and the securities he recommended for widows and orphans soon became known...
...When Joe himself leaves his own vale of laughter, it is the result of an unintentional practical joke, played by a friend whose analysis of Joe's humor always kills the joke. What is true of Joe is also true of De Vries: his gags are the defenses of a very serious fellow who has found no better way to fend off the daily slings and arrows...