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...favor of any rule, not necessarily a two-platoon system, that would allow us to use more players per game and more specialists," Yovicsin stated, calling a more liberal substitution allowance "more important to the Crimson than any other suggested change...
...Edmund King braved a death sentence by bleeding Charles without consent of his ministers. Next day they forgivingly voted Dr. King ?1,000, but sent in so many other doctors (18) that he was nearly crowded out of the royal chamber. For five days, writes Turner, the panicky new platoon tried everything on Charles except rest and privacy...
...Herbert Hoover has long since dropped the daily gym exercises that won him fame as head of the "medicine-ball Cabinet." Still, his energy seems almost unlimited. He rises early, usually around 6:30, is at his desk in his Waldorf-Astoria office by 9:30 a.m., directing a platoon of secretaries and research assistants, writing manuscripts (most notably and recently, The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson) in longhand. Though he naps for an hour or two after lunch, Hoover is far from having slowed his overall pace: he works seven days a week. Almost every night he has guests...
...even delivery boys got past the front gate. What went on inside the two houses, the annex, in the fine garden, the orchard, swimming pool and volleyball field? The windows were curtained; a seemingly endless stream of strangers went to and fro; and they ate enough food for a platoon. Townfolk talked about smugglers, maybe even revolutionaries...
...coach John Yovicsin feels that his second team, so largely manned by untried personnel, is still too inexperienced for the Crimson to adopt a two-platoon system. Though the substitution rule has been eased and Yovicsin had hoped that he would be able to use two separate units, he fears that his present second team might be overwhelmed by the strong, veteran squad that will be coming in from Buffalo. "We'd like to do it, but we just don't think we're in a position to," he said yesterday...