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UMass's habit of using a lot of backfield motion, shifts to new formations, and other tricks compound the defensive difficulties. Halfback Fred Lewis, a 210-pound cannonball with speed, presents the defense with plenty of problems no matter what the formation. His particular specialty is the end run, a play which is fraught with touchdown potential every time it is called...
...Grant's team of physiatrists hit upon ice massage as the way to induce a deep chill. As they developed their technique, the medics began to use half-pound chunks of ice, frozen in cans, held in a washcloth. Patients complained of an uncomfortable chill, then of a burning sensation, then of an ache, but finally they reported a blessed numbness and easing of pain. If the injury was in a part of an arm or leg that could be dipped in water, it was dunked, then ice cubes were dropped into the water until the cycle of discomfort...
...Ezra Pound's cantos showed "scraps of minor classics in Greek and Latin, but not a single idea of his own." Archibald MacLeish was "a college-educated and practiced publicist trying hard to think." Frost's principal êete noire was Edgar Lee Masters, whose Spoon River Anthology made him a literary lion in the '20s. "His new book," Frost wrote waspishly, "proves my original suspicion, not that Masters is just dead but that he was never very much alive." H. L. Mencken he dismissed as "that non-fur-bearing skunk...
When he was released from a Washington mental institution in 1958, Ezra Pound, 77, hightailed it to Italy, muttering that he "didn't know how it would be possible to live in America outside a madhouse." But last week, after he was named this year's winner of the prestigious Academy of American Poets Award for "distinguished poetic achievement," the Faustian-bearded poet had mellowed somewhat on his stand: "I was and still am very surprised and moved. This changes a lot of things. If I feel well, if the weather is good and the circumstances are favorable...
Author Ferber gives low marks to writers who wait for inspiration to strike, tries to pound out 1,000 words every day of the week. She is justly proud that all of her bestsellers are still in print and that the early ones have been read by four generations. Shortly she hopes to post one milestone that few other authors have reached in their lifetimes; in just four years, her first book will legally be in the public domain...