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Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, and Brown are on the 1946 schedule, but even these games have undergone alterations from prewar memories, The Dartmouth contest, moved out of its traditional early season spot to a position before the Brown and Yale encounters (which remain the last two games to the list), will be played at Hanover for the first time in the history of the series...
...when it was organized in 1918, has stayed with it ever since, taking time out to earn an aviator's wings and qualify as a tank driver. A training accident made Waitt so allergic to tear gas that the slightest whiff of it puts him on the sick list...
...auction was on. Cooper, who had staged a salary rebellion with Brother Mort before joining the Navy last spring, got No. 1 priority on the sales list by blabbing that he would never again put on a Cardinal uniform. The Cooper news was hardly out before the Pittsburgh Pirates admitted that, they had put up some $30.000 for the Cards' pepperpot, switch-hitting Second Baseman Jimmy Brown. Other anxious buyers fretted on the Cardinal doorstep...
Critic Winspear, who is director of Chicago's leftish Abraham Lincoln School, got maddest at one of Harvard's suggested reading lists which he said "apparently stopped with the great classics of laissez-faire. From such a list [Adam Smith, Rousseau, Mill et al.] ... no student would ever glean 'dangerous thoughts...
Unhappiest man in Rome the day the list came out was Signor Gammarelli, the thin, clear-eyed tailor who has the arduous task of supplying cardinals with all the paraphernalia of a prince of the church. Even in the best of times a cardinal's wardrobe costs about $4,000, from his moire silk skullcap to his red silk socks and red morocco, silver-buckled shoes. Since one complete costume (a cardinal usually has a half-dozen or more) takes up to 30 yards of material, and Italy's weavers are still short of supplies, Gammarelli feared there...