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Dick Adams at 180 began the parade by slipping on a half nelson and body press in 6:55 of the third period. Joe Lostor at 137 immediately followed suit with a quick pin over Mark Cohen half-way through the first period...
Crimson Captain Chick Chandler heads the lineup at 167. He won by default against Williams. Lightweight Don Fern decisioned his 123 pound opponent last week, while Dick Adams at 130 won by a pin in the first period...
...came in grey-flannel suits--even the ones from Columbia and Manhattan Colleges. There were twenty-five of them, five from Harvard, crowded into a small room, and the room was painted grey and altogether it was a gloomy atmosphere. Every half-hour an older man in a blue pin-striped suit came in and called off a name. The name adjusted the knot of his tie and went into a room down the hall where five other men in pin-striped suits sat around a table deciding who was to get the Big Scholarship. Each time someone was summoned...
...morning, and it was now seven at night and the flannels were beginning to lose their press. The office building had long since closed, so whenever footsteps were heard everybody tensed, because it might be the man with the decision. Usually it was just a scrubwoman. Once all the pin-stripes passed by, and everyone tensed just a little more but they were only going to the men's room. None of the flannels went to the men's room while the pin-stripes were in there...
...eleven at night, just as someone was calculating how many man hours had been spent waiting, a lookout reported that the pin-stripes were coming. the twenty-five grey flannels jumped to their feet, smoothed their wrinkles and stood erect, wearing the same bright grins they had worn in the interview room. The chief pinstripe said something about what a hard choice it was. Then he announced the winners, and the others shook their hands and murmured congratulations. Then, with a final, faded smile in he direction of the pin-stripes, they walked quickly out the door and into...