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Down in the village where the Freshmen live, rowing activity centers about "Ma" Gerholz's Croften training table, where three of the championships eight got their spinach. "What Delilah did to Samson, what Frankle did to Johnny, are nothing compared to what we can do to Harvard," says Ma...
...hard way. First there were the qualifying matches, and he breezed through them; then Pancho liquidated two opponents who had been considered good enough to sidestep qualifying matches. His usual lethargic, mañana attitude was gone, replaced by a calm, white-toothed grin and a cannonball service. In the third round he met and disposed of Herbie Flam, 8-10, 8-6, 6-4. Said Pancho: "I don't think he'll ever beat me again unless he's playing especially good and I'm bad." It was a big victory for Pancho, even though...
Appraised of the situation, Nostalthia Smythe-Heatherstone, Radcliffe '48, remarked yesterday, "Why who does she, I mean that interloper, I mean that thing think she is; coming into our territory like that? So that's why I haven't had a ma . . . I mean a date in the past month...
...take a $6-a-week wage boost and arbitrate everything else. Picket-line tension grew. In Detroit two strikers were injured and 22 arrested after a battle with police and nonstrikers reporting for work. In Milwaukee, one fun-loving picket paraded tauntingly in a baby buggy as a miserly "Ma Bell...
...word in school. Later, he worked as a call-boy on the nearby Texas & Pacific Railway, and punched cows in the summer to earn his way through Simmons College (now Hardin-Simmons University). He played basketball, and ran so many campus organizations that he picked up another nickname, "Ma." Prankish, he liked to set all the alarm clocks in the student dormitory in which he lived for 4 a.m., roll 16-lb. shots down the halls and stairs in the dead of night. The college yearbook, which Gene edited, said of him: "Quiet and un assuming but a living example...