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...side note, both athletes hail from the land of turnpikes. Ferrara comes from Floram Park, New Jersey and the Delbarton School, while Hu comes from Ringwood, New Jersey and Depaul High School. IVY LEAGUE STANDINGS Overall Ivies Team W L W L Harvard 1 0 1 0 Cornell 1 0 1 0 Yale 1 0 1 0 Pennsylvania 1 0 0 0 Dartmouth 0 1 0 0 Brown 0 1 0 1 Columbia 0 1 0 1 Princeton...
...caressing people's shoulders and prodding their bellies with a beseeching hand. Another rolled his wheelchair up against the commuters' feet and tugged at their sleeves. A third stretched across a counter in a weirdly feline gesture, trying to intercept the change coming back to Mike Farrell, 50, of Ringwood, N.J. "No!" howled Farrell, loud enough to make heads turn. "It's the only way you can get through to them," he explained...
...Ringwood, County Hampshire, England, a blear-eyed Friesian cow named Bridge Birch yielded 41,952 pounds of milk in 329 days to displace (unofficially) an American Holstein, Carnation Ormsby Madcap Fayne, as world champion. Bridge Birch's owner admitted that his cow got a daily diet-booster of half a gallon of stout...
...Herald Tribune, was much miffed by the wartime atmosphere. Wrote he: "... Pretentious folk are busy with cosmic urges which only tomorrow will be remembered as humorous follies and bumbling with skirmishes with destiny which next week will be recalled as yesterday's hysterical giggles." He predicted that Edward Ringwood Hewitt's savory volume of reminiscences, Those Were The Days (TIME, Dec. 27) "will be read and remembered when the apologies of current admirals and the postured stompings and poutings and cries of 'Me, I'm the bravest one' of war correspondents have been baled...
...summer, on their farm at Ringwood, N.J., they built a 250-foot slide from the top of the orchard across the lawn, greased the slide with beeswax, and sailed down it "at great speed and with wild howls of glee." Ambassador Whitelaw Reid and Presidential Candidate Samuel J. Tilden tried it once when "both of them [were] rather well along in years." Says Author Hewitt: "It is a wonder that they were not hurt...