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Last week it came out that Colwell was not knocked unconscious at all but was merely playing possum at Kelley's suggestion in order to get taken out of the game without costing Yale the five-yard penalty imposed for extra substitutions not required by injuries...
...siege went on hour after hour, the baffled crowd began to yap and howl like hounds at a treed possum. Tear gas fumes were whiffed away by a sharp breeze. Hurled torches fell short of their mark. Then, early in the sixth hour, a State trooper took off his shirt, soaked it in gasoline, inched up to an outbuilding, lighted the shirt, tossed it into the shed. Up it blazed and the breeze swept the flames across to the house. The tindery old clapboards went up with a roar...
...denying that such slavery has its little compensations. Mr. Hutton's slave quarters in Palm Beach might be called a model cabin. His 16,000-acre patch in South Carolina is sufficient to supply potatoes and greens for a slave family of normal appetite, besides an occasional 'possum, and the Hutton slave ship, the Hussar, the largest sailing yacht in the world, offers a pleasant escape from the driving lash of his masters, who pay no taxes and are therefor 100% free...
When moon-faced Chinese Premier Wang Ching-wei gave "poor health" as his excuse for resigning (TIME, Aug. 26), correspondents voiced hardboiled doubts that his illness was anything more serious than a case of playing Chinese political possum. This caused Mr. Wang to exclaim angrily: "My illness is very real...
...lead-off speech. . . . What is the trouble with this Administration? . . . They think that Huey Long is the cause of all their worry. They go gunning for me, but am I the cause of their misery? Well, they are like old David Crockett who went out to hunt a possum. . . . Soon he discovered that it was not a possum at all that he saw in the top of the tree; it was a louse in his own eyebrow...