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...young a rider, Clarence ("Ping") Picou is a remarkable judge of pace. But one of his biggest assets is getting a horse away to a fast start. It is a trick he learned down in Texas. At twelve, Ping Picou began riding Quarter horse races on Sunday, where he learned not to get left at the post. He rode about 200 races in two years, before a cattleman, Felix De Mary, gave him a chance to become a real jockey...
...question is how long can Ping Picou keep his weight down to jockey size. He is tall for his 106 lbs., already has to watch his diet. Asked what he intends to do when he stops being a jockey, Bug Boy Picou answers quickly...
...gadget. Result of their collaboration is a surgeon-alarm for gallstones: a tiny quartz crystal enclosed in silver at the end of a slender, hollow silver probe, and attached to an amplifier. The quartz acts like a phonograph pickup; when the probe touches a gallstone, it makes a ping or click-like the noise made when two small rocks are knocked together. The sound can be amplified enough to be heard through operating-room loudspeakers, or tuned down to the surgeon's earphones...
...efforts were all but blocked by over-crowding, and the fact that the Yard was a hodge-podge of freshmen and upperclassmen. The Union couldn't function properly: it was mainly a place where you waited in line to cat, or signed up a month in advance for a ping-pong table...
Free time in the day was spent swimming or rowing on a nearby lake, playing ping-pong, or dozing in an easy chair. Most students devoted the evenings to chess or checkers, study in a luxuriously-furnished library, or listening to concerts of classical music in the music room...