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People who like the present system occasionally state that it takes account of individual identities - that any other method treats the students like a peg to be fitted into some pigeonhole. Yet the reason why the assignment of a student House should be a personal enterprise is hard to understand in view of the fact that the freshman will probably be equally happy no matter where goes...
...packed carefully in a coffinlike box and ent it, with his formal calling card bear ing the legend "Compliments of D.E.S.." to the new Army Medical Museum in Washington. After pathologists had ex-mined the specimen, the bone was preserved. For years, on the anniversary of he amputation. Peg Leg Sickles went to visit his missing member, often taking friends to join in the macabre ceremony...
...officers and gentlemen," says Kemper, "which was hard for my sisters, but not for me." The colonel tried and failed to make Johnny a star athlete, but his upright New England mother made him something better. "He is a good man," says his sister Peg. "Anything cheap or second-rate has never been in his mind...
...good leader-manager of varsity lacrosse, superintendent of the post Sunday school, captain of his regiment and class president. He did well in history, a fact that counted later. An avid dancer, he hoofed in the annual Hundredth Night Show, loved to go out shagging with Peg at nearby Vassar...
Bill Stafford and Whitey Ford allowed four runs between them in nailing down the other two Yankee wins while teammates came up with crucial defensive plays. All three outfielders (Mantle, Maris and Tresh) made spectacular catches at critical moments, capped by Maris' run-preventing peg in the last inning of the seventh game...