Word: mcclung
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Died. Dr. Clarence Erwin McClung, 75, University of Pennsylvania zoologist and geneticist who discovered the relationship between chromosomes and sex determination by examining grasshoppers (he collected 100,000, once had a 20-man WPA team helping him cut them up); of a heart attack; in Swarthmore...
...literate, right-thinking Americans know that the first college in the nation to admit women students was Blount College (now the University of Tennessee). William Blount, Governor of the Territory South of the Ohio, secured admission of his daughter Barbara, Kittie Kain, Colonel McClung's daughter, and three other young ladies of the capital's aristocracy to the institution named...
...Dabney was betrothed to Clay Maclvor, but when infantile paralysis withered her right leg, he made off with her sister Aven ("graceful as a waterfall"). Morna had to content herself, illicitly, with the "incredibly handsome" Keith Alexander, while the leg limbered up. Keith (in nonfiction the remarkable Alexander Keith McClung) was the bitter bastard son of a great man in Washington. Keith shot 17 men for asking who. Author Street keeps his guesses to himself...
Every so often and just for variety, the line would pull out practically on masse and head around the ends. It was on two plays like this that the Yale captain, McClung, carried the ball to within striking distance of the Harvard goal, but the real cause of victory was the sensational work of a certain guard named Hefflinger later known to all Elis as "Pudge." The CRIMSON ruefully admitted on Monday that Pudge had done no mean job of opening up holes in the Harvard line...
Mostly one long flashback, the picture begins with Cagney bawling out a noisy party in the next yard, whereupon a turtlenecked Yale man of the Bum McClung era, with a Y as wide as his chest, rears above the garden wall and shouts: "I'd like to give him a taste of the good old flying wedge!" Whereupon a street band blares into The Band Played On, which plumps Cagney into such a mood of reminiscence that it is a full hour until he returns to test, and best, the good old flying wedge...