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Joining Horner should be tight end Chuck Marshall, a small but skilled returning letterman and another varsity baseball player. Linus O'Donnell, a powerful 6-5, 240-lb, tight end candidate, has been sidelined with leg problems; and Restic said he doesn't know when O'Donnell might be able to get back on the field...
HENRY STEELE COMMAGER, historian (Amherst College): Linus Pauling has provided leadership in an almost 18th century fashion by combining great distinction in scientific inquiry and in the moral arena. The second figure who has steadily, over a long and distinguished career, held up to our people a spectacle of greatness is Archibald MacLeish. He has inspired generations of Americans to a love of literature and of philosophy...
Though in awe of his heroes, Judson is not blind to their egomanias and foibles. Watson is "markedly bright and never accustomed to hide the fact." Linus Pauling, a fount of chemical wis dom and occasional foolishness, has "un quenchable self-confidence." Biochemist Erwin Chargaff, bypassed by the DNA revolution, is "the man of mordant dissent." But in the main, the author is content to take the role of acolyte, bombarding his gifted tutors with questions, some incisive, others pointedly rhetorical. As Judson plays student to Nobel Laureates Crick and Perutz, so does the reader, who, if patient enough...
...Popes since Linus I succeeded St. Peter in A.D. 67, 45 did not survive a year after their election. Six were murdered; one died of wounds received in the course of the Guelph-Ghibelline civil wars; one, John XXI, 1277, was killed by a falling ceiling...
...netminder Linus Sheehan prevented Faught and Harvard from running away with the game, however, picking up 16 saves as the Crimson peppered the crease with 42 shots. Attackmen Bill Forbush (two goals, two assists). Jim Ossyra (one goal, one assist), and Tarry Trusty rounded out the Harvard scoring. Pete Predun was blanked but chipped in three assists...