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...thousands of students have in common is Robert Gordon Sproul. The lonely bigness of Berkeley helps to explain why the Cal rooting section* at football games is not only the world's largest but at times its most raucous. Undergraduates sometimes blow off steam by deluging neighbors with pillow feathers and toilet paper, and loudly counting out the steps as the referee paces off a penalty against Cal, ending up with a thunderous "You Bastard!" When Stanford beat Cal in last year's Big Game, 25-6, disgruntled Cal rooters tore up the grandstands. U.C.L.A.'s rooters...
...three days at a time (the league stretches from Kansas City to Newark) without a bath, a bed, or a hot meal, and then crawled out long enough to play a game. The smart ones got aboard the bus early, rolled up their uniforms for a pillow, and slept in the aisle. "After two months of it, I was for quitting," says Jackie. "No future." He didn't know it, but all the time Branch Rickey was getting reports of Jackie's playing, and of his .340 batting average...
Despite pain and danger he did not lose the coarse ferocity which had endeared him to voters in Mississippi's piney woods. He bragged that one operation had left him, with "no more chin than a jack-rabbit"; he said he had a pistol under his pillow for photographers. He talked nonchalantly of death, promised to "haunt the hell" out of the Republicans who had started the fight to bar him from the Senate. As summer wore on he seemed to be on the road to recovery. But a fortnight ago his wizened, 69-year-old body fell prey...
...just graduated in biology from Manhattan's Hunter College, was ringing doorbells in search of a laboratory job. She did not find the job, but she walked into an NYA group that started her dancing. Last week, at the University of the Dance at rustic Jacob's Pillow, Mass., where Pearl Primus was a guest artist, students saw one of the U.S.'s most spectacular dancers in terrific action...
...fortnight ago at Jacob's Pillow, students saw a trial run of four of his new sketches: Weidman mugging and leaping grandly as the "owl who was God," or the harried male of The Shrike and the Chipmunks. Weidman hopes to dance the Fables on Broadway. Says he: "I'm not one of those arty people who think the dance is sacred...