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Last spring, Harvard begged down in fifth place in the Heps, behind Army, Navy, Penn and Dartmouth. Since then, though, Crimson stock has climbed steadily, and by pacing all other Ivy colleges in the recent IC4A championships, the Varsity served notice that its wartime possum-playing days are over. Now, although the spring curtain-raiser is still a flock of shinsplints away, the first flush of competitive fever is swooping over the Varsity track scene...
...Thanked Arkansas' Polk County Possum Club for sending him its prize possum. (The club had also sent its ugliest, scrawniest possum to John L. Lewis...
Food & Shelter. Was Russia playing possum by deliberately stressing Soviet weakness? It was conceivable, but far from likely. The war had cost Russian production a decade of progress. She could not make that up if a Big Three split forced her to continue devoting two thirds of her national effort to armaments. Whatever their long-term aims might be, Soviet leaders wanted peace long enough to put more food in Russian bellies, more clothes on Russian backs...
...spot boss. Some of LeMay's devoted associates in the Twentieth did not take kindly to the change, just as they instinctively resented him when he replaced the first commander of the B-29s in the Marianas-friendly, brown-eyed Brigadier General Haywood S. ("Possum...
...nations, concludes Author Stewart, can boast a nomenclature "so definitely linked with actual men and events," or composed to such an extent by "all classes from border ruffian to Boston Brahmin." Pastoral simplicities like Seldom Seen, Possum Glory, Chicken Bristle, Hog Eye, Ticklenaked, Pokamoonshine, Stop-theJade, Bug Tussel and Pennsylvania's neighboring Intercourse and Fertility are as native and natural as those that recall forgotten troubles and tragedies-Cape Fear, Cape Foulweather, Gunsight Hills, Broken Bow, Massacre Lake, Deadman Creek. "The other Tokyo." World War II has shown that local pride-of-name can now stand up to anything...