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Other second-hand ideas which appear in this issue include the foibles of television and 3-D movies, the "in 25 words or less" contest, the detective story, the mysterious mixup, and the shock ending in which someone suddenly discovers that an imaginary situation has become real. Indeed, the Lampoon is present testimony to the theory that all the stories ever written have been derived from a set of 35 basic plots...
...basketball coach's derision, a job cutting grass, and a military mixup led to one of the most successful wrestling careers in the history of the sport at Harvard. Johnny Lee, two time team captain and one time paratrooper, in the holder of this enviable record...
...tiny specimen of outer skin, taken painlessly, is enough to show the true chromosomal sex of any individual. Dr. Barr told Toronto's Academy of Medicine. If doctors suspect a sex mixup in a baby, this test should be made at once, he urged, so that operations to straighten things out can be performed early. Even more important, the child can be reared from the start as a member of its rightful...
...first Terrier point, at 5:55 of the first period resulted from an unfortunate mixup in the crease. Richardson was buried under a Harvard defenseman, so nobody opposed Paul Cleary's easy tap. At 12:21, Hubbard tied it up from behind the cage, banging the disk off Kelley's skate...
...troupe's opening bill was a pleasing double one: Marivaux's Les Fausses Confidences (The False Secrets) rattled off in French; and a pantomime, Baptiste, requiring no French at all. A mannered 18th-century mixup, Les Fausses Confidences was all ambitious mothers and wily servants, dissembling lovers and trumped-up letters. But in an elegantly stylized production, the play seemed almost to be danced. Done so lightly, even its witless deceptions had an air of wit. Madeleine Renaud made an exquisite widow; Barrault, playing an agile valet, had about him a touch of quicksilver, of Mercury himself...