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...fact that the Olympic games will not be held until next summer. Between last June 28, when the Crimson champions assembled in the same boat for the last time as a unit, and the spring of 1948 when the U. S. representative is chosen, a lot of water--pardon the expression--will pass under the Larz Anderson Bridge. And the shell-load Coach Tom Bolles will finally call his "number one beat" for competition as the Varsity next spring will have unfamiliar figures in at least three slides--stroke, four, and two--as well as a new coxswain...
...author's native Ibo language, Mbonu means "deeds, not words." Readers will undoubtedly find many of Ojike's deeds convincing. When he tried to register at a hotel in Iowa, he was told that Negroes were not welcome. "I beg your pardon," he replied haughtily, "I am a Black man from Nigeria." Ojike got the room. He was also initiated into American pomp and protocol, and discovered that by wearing Nigerian robes one could get admitted to many lily-white functions. But when he tried to enroll an African friend in the University of Chicago Medical School, Ojike...
...Pardon me, he says to a pair, but we two eligible esthetes would like to make the acquaintance of two rapturous dolls resembling...
...Along. At Indiana University, 23-year-old Donald Duggleby barely paused to say: "Pardon me, but you'll have to hurry because I've got to get along. Problem? The main problem of everybody is to catch up. We're all trying to get where we would have been if there hadn't been a war." In getting there, many had unabashedly criticized textbooks and frightened incompetent instructors. One awed chemistry teacher at U.C.L.A. reported that they had raised his class average 20% over previous years...
...There have been three Presidents of the United States: George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt. Pardon me, I am wrong; it has lately transpired there was another President called Something Wilson, who was devoted to his family, and liked to stand by the piano, listening to old songs. He was shockingly misunderstood...