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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chet Boulris led the Harvard football squad in rushing, number of passes caught, and yards gained in runbacks and interceptions, post-season statistics show. Boulris totaled 628 yards this season in 125 attempts for an average of five yards a carry. His nine pass receptions netted the Crimson another 70 yards, and he ran back nine kick-offs for 166 yards...
...number of Harvard professors are members of an unofficial group of advisers to Senator John F. Kennedy '40. The group, which was organized last year by Earl G. Latham, visiting lecturer on government, prepares positions on public issues for the use of the Senator's office in establishing his own final stand...
...contrast to Crawford, 'Poon President Edward Tarlov '60 took a broad view of the matter, laughing off the confiscation as a "pretty poor effort." He grounded his assertion on the fact that, despite police action, 'Poon candidates had been able to sell a large number of parodies on Bowl grounds. As for the 300 copies, he stated that they were being held in New Haven and would be reclaimed by the magazine this weekend...
Lube Job. In Tucson, Ariz., after he was flagged down at a school-zone crossing by an eleven-year-old girl school guard who carefully jotted down his license number, startled Motorist Joe Chin was told: "I'll forget all about it for a quarter...
...surprise, of course, was on Rommel, who was caught notably out of position; and he was to keep muttering through that fateful invasion day, as he rushed back to Normandy: "How stupid of me, how stupid of me." It is the number of fortuitous errors and outright bungles on the German side that lends fascination and suspense to Author Cornelius Ryan's reconstruction of The Longest Day. Author Ryan, onetime senior writer for Collier's, has dug assiduously into the histories, war diaries and personal recollections of all the D-day fighters he could find on either side...