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Roger L. Butler '51, head cheerleader, bemoaned the situation by saying, "One of the best things of living at Harvard is the elimination of that menial task of bed-making. The one last remnant of gracious living is in serious proximity to death...
With Pants Pantalconi and Ben Florin still bothered by leg injuries, right half back Bob Harding is the only healthy remnant of last week's regular defensive lineup...
...Expecting trouble during the night, I loaded my shotgun with small shot. But nothing happened. Only the hyenas roared and the jackals barked hoarsely over the remnant of the festive meal...
...Clouds of smoke and earth billowed on Wolmi; the land at water's edge was no longer visible. At 6:05 the Corsairs came. They flashed down over the island to drop their bombs, and cylinders of smoke pillared up from Wolmi's hills and the shattered remnant of the resort hotel. In the LSUs a marine shouted happily: "Save us a little of that island...
There are still a few book editors old-fashioned enough to care chiefly for good books, but in an industry increasingly geared to "the big pitch" they are a thin remnant. One of the best of them, Maxwell Perkins, died three years ago after a legendary 37-year career with Scribner in which he discovered or helped push to fame such men as Ernest Hemingway, Ring Lardner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Marquand and Thomas Wolfe...