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...Galahad. Wham! Whomp! Thunk! Glunk! The Kid in the white satin trunks with the shamrock-green piping is down. The ringside crowd is up and roaring. "Sev-hin, A-yut, Nigh-yen"-the Kid's up again. He's bleeding at the mouth. How much more of this grueling punishment can the Kid take? Well, say another 15 or 20 solid punches right in the kisser. But don't sell the Kid short. He has a heart of gold and a head of lead. When his eyes begin to look like two fried eggs...
...were quite an event. Admission was free and on a first - come - first - served basis; the students responded to this policy about the way one would suspect they might. Partial consolation for those unable to fight their way in was WGBH-TV's rebroadcast of each lecture later the nigh it was given...
...bent double as he sat in church one Sunday. The mountain preacher asked various members of the congregation what the Lord had done for them. All replied, in self-satisfying detail. Then the preacher pointed to Uncle Eph and demanded an answer. Croaked Uncle Eph: "Brother, he has mighty nigh ruint me." Concluded Senator Ervin: "That is about what Senator McCarthy has done to the Senate." Ervin made his point, even while lightening the Senate atmosphere. He did it again during a 1956 hearing of the Senate's airpower subcommittee, when Washington's Democratic Senator "Scoop" Jackson...
...last fortnight, Cartoonist Batchelor, whose personal driving record is well-nigh unblemished, finished the 1,001st contribution to his crusade, drove out for a weekend at his country home in Connecticut. There, behind the wheel of his 1950 Jaguar sedan (Conn, license ITU-for Inviting the Undertaker), with his wife at his side. Cartoonist Batchelor ran head-on into real-life inspiration for his 1,002nd traffic cartoon...
President Kennedy's weekend shake-up of his administration is "definitely an attempt to turn the StateDepartment into an agency of the Presidency," Charles R. Cherington, professor of Government, said last nigh in a statement typifying Faculty analysis of the situation, both on and off the record...