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With the weather man predicting a fair cool afternoon, an estimated 20,000 spectators at the Boylston Street paladium will see a duel between two lines about equal in weight, with the Crimson forced for still another week to guard against an overhead barrage. Operating from the T and QT, the Rutgers eleven features an excellent passer in quarterback Frank Burns, as well as a good breakaway run her in 18-year-old Herm Hering...
...urged every man to keep on his toes. There might still be need, said OCD, for all the equipment it had delivered or requisitioned: 4,419,450 arm bands, 2,700,000 helmets, 5,000,000 gas masks, 100,000 firemen's coats, 72,000 12-to-14-qt. buckets, 2,258,000 fire extinguishers, 100,000 pairs of blue-denim pants, umpty-umpty-ump first-aid kits, nozzles, pumping units, stretcher litters, shovels, folding cots...
...Army rations were not always so sumptuous. During the Revolution, a soldier was issued daily (if he got it) 1 Ib. of meat, 6 oz. of bread, 1 pt. of milk, rice, 1 qt. of spruce beer. He had to do his cooking himself. The War of 1812 added another item to the list: vinegar, which was mixed with sugar and water to make a highly regarded tonic. In the Civil War, Union soldiers got 20 oz. of beef, 22 oz. of bread,* 2½ oz. of beans, rice, green coffee, sugar, vinegar. Pepper was added to the menu...
...punch he requested is called "The Green Dragon," and its ingredients, hitherto kept secret, are as follows: 2 gal. pure grain alcohol; 2 gal. luke warm water; 1 pt. rum flavoring; 2 qt. cointreau; 2 qt. brandy; 3 qt. iced tea; 1 gal. charged water; 1 gal. ginger ale; and 4 gal. grapefruit juice...
...Before breakfast, ½ gal. of buttermilk. Typical breakfast: 1 doz. fried eggs, a huge ½-in.-thick slice of ham, 1 doz. hard rolls, 1 qt. black coffee. Dinner: 1 doz. raw oysters, chicken gumbo, terrapin stew, two canvasback ducks, mashed potatoes, lima beans, macaroni, asparagus, cole slaw, stewed corn, 1 hot mince pie, 1 qt. coffee; 1 bottle sauterne, 1 qt. champagne, several cognacs. He particularly liked a 7-lb. beefsteak, 1½-in. thick, so rare it was hardly warm.. * A violation of a major canon of the American Bar Association, which, however, never peeped until some...