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...training meal has been a sacred part of the athletic credo for centuries. As a recent study of the matter concluded, "It has its roots in the superstition and magic of the unrecorded past." At one time men ate powdered lion's teeth to make them strong, and similar practices prevail in many primitive cultures even...
...Gardner made it her business to set Boston impolitely on its ear. Such a concentric society, she reasoned, would appreciate eccentricity. She chartered a locomotive for a picnic, led a lion on a leash, drank beer at "pop" concerts, and once, during Lent, donned sackcloth and scrubbed the steps of Boston's Church of the Advent. Meanwhile she kept buying pictures, and putting her servants on short rations so that she could do it. Her greatest caprice, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, is a Venetian palazzo on The Fenway in the midst of Boston, containing some of the world...
...made the mouse comes full circle with a report on the lion. His Majesty, the King of Beasts is taken from 100,000 ft. of film shot in Africa...
...game. Up front, center Bob Foster and tackles Pete Briggs and Bob Shaunessy were as effective as usual, but it was the line as a whole which impressed most of all.Eleven Defeats Columbia Two weeks ago today Harvard scored a decisive 26-0 victory over Columbia. Pictured above is Lion halfback Harvey Brookins (34) attempting unsuccessfully to circle the left side of the Crimson line. End Doug Hamilton (87) is moving in to make the tackle, while tackle Pete Briggs (77) applies the old bearhug to a Columbia blocker. Last week the Varsity continued its winning streak, overpowering undefeated Dartmouth...
...Farm attached to Imber Abbey, which houses an order of enclosed Anglican nuns. Imber is made up of a rather odd parcel of stuffed hairshirts. They include the son of an old military family, who seems to think of heaven as the last outpost of Empire, a mouse and lion husband-and-wife team, a saintly Good-Humored girl, frozen on the outside, soft on the inside. Finally there is the colony's leader, Michael Meade, a tense scoutmaster type who flounders in the hell of his homosexual impulses...