Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Well pleased was retiring Chief Darling last week with the man he had been allowed to pick as his successor, Ira Noel Gabrielson, 46, a conservation expert who has spent all but the first three years of his professional life with the Biological Survey. Of new Chief Gabrielson, who weighs 260 lb., Ding remarked: "They won't push him around...
Balancing the two teams, I believe Harvard has the defensive edge, Yale the offensive. Since you have to push over touchdowns to win football games, I pick Harvard in a tight games...
...sprints should be fairly consistent winners. In the distances Wallace E. Howell '36 and Arthur G. Jameson '37 are available. Good diving should be ensured by Henry K. Fittz '36 and Bernard F. Merriam '36; and Bertram S. Wolfson '36 with Warren H. White '36 appear to be the pick of the breaststrokes. Furthermore, great assistance should be furnished by a large group of capable sophomores from last year's highly successful freshman team. Many of these will be a real threat to several College records. In particular, Charles G. Hutter '38 and Dario Berizzi show promise in the freestyle...
...best seats in the stadium of course, are between the goal lines, excepting those in the colonnades and track sections, but these choice seats number only 6000. After the pick has been taken by members of the Varsity, J. V., and Freshman teams, the coaches, and the body of undergraduates, these places are almost entirely filled...
...race horses rather than Madonnas, who is a businessman, not a banker, who has been unsuccessful in business only in his two attempts to retire from it. Born in Austria, arriving in the U. S. at 4, he grew up to write sports for a Chicago newspaper, manage prizefighters, pick losers at racetracks, lose his job when his paper went into a merger. Then he became an automobile salesman with his sporting friends his best customers. He entered the taxicab business when he turned four old trade-ins into hacks. Cabstands were located at hotels, and cabmen paid hotel-operators...