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When I was a lad in college, all my wise compatriots were busy writing learned essays on world matters, communism, literature and the arts. Some were busily joining the Communist party... A few of us earned the finger of scorn from our betters since we devoted ourselves mainly to the pursuit of happiness, coeds and corn whisky and read only the sports pages. Of that group, most of them grew up to succeed. The long-skulls who wrote the learned essays for the campus paper wound up as minor clerks and press agents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLEGE CO ARSE | 12/2/1953 | See Source »

...Clasby wouldn't even play against Yale tomorrow. Vag was still pondering Clasby's fate as he pulled out 400 yen. He really ought to make it an even bet just to show his contempt for all old Blues. But Vag figured he might just as well take the lad's money. After all, they had scalped him last year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vag in Yokosuka | 12/1/1953 | See Source »

Next day, without waiting for his $57,492 paycheck, Middleweight Olson, who complained all through training that he was homesick, flew off to his wife and four children in San Francisco. Before Bobo left, Turpin put the new champion (and indirectly himself) in proper boxing perspective: "This lad isn't in the same class with Robinson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: For Sugar's Crown | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

Best of all, at left half, is a player Davidson describes as follows: "If any All-Southern and All-American gridder was ever produced at Davidson, Jimmy Thacker is the lad." On the basis of his play this season, Thacker is "the lad...

Author: By Jack Rosenthal, | Title: Winless Davidson Is 4-Touchdown Underdog | 10/31/1953 | See Source »

...Albany, Calif., after the Golden Gate Fields track veterinarian refused to permit two horses to run in the mile-and-sixteenth Millbrae Handicap, the stewards ordered Calumet Farm's Dixie Lad, whose trainer tried to scratch him, to race in order to keep the betting field at eight. Handicap's winner: Dixie Lad, who paid $31 on a $2 ticket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Oct. 12, 1953 | 10/12/1953 | See Source »

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