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Today the Crimson squashes its neighbors in the field events. Tomorrow the Harvard runners mop up what's left...
...Line. Other Peanuts characters pop up from time to time. Lucy has several fuss-budget understudies: Patty, Sally, Violet and Frieda. Pig-Pen is a "human soil bank" who raises a cloud of dust on a perfectly clean street and passes out gumdrops that are invariably black. Mop-haired Schroeder is always banging out Beethoven on the piano or gazing soulfully at a bust of the master ("I picked Beethoven," says Schulz, "because he is sort of pompous and grandiose. I like Brahms better"). Lucy is in love with Schroeder, but he is too busy with Beethoven to care...
Harvard track teams have been good before, but rarely has one been as loaded as this spring's. There is talent in every event, and so much depth that coach Bill McCurdy could probably lose all his Heps champions with galloping elephantiasis and still mop up everyone on the dual-meet schedule...
...There's a lot of insanity in loneliness," he confides. "I've got to get sane again. If you mop your wounds, it takes away from the depth of your playing." His music finds a far more receptive audience today than it did five years ago. In fact, the quiet revolution growing within the jazz world points directly down the path blazed by Ornette Coleman. "I think," he says, "I can see some sunlight coming...
...Kharkov), in July 1943, as "Hitler's last chance to turn the tide," and thus as important as Stalingrad the previous year. Werth is at his best in eyewitness accounts of Leningrad or of his tour (in -40° C. weather) through the Stalingrad area just after the mop-up there. The item about Russian children using the stiffly frozen body of a German soldier as a sled makes a one-sentence summary of the horror...