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Except for Rip Lynch and George Bender on the tentative third midfield lettermen will do most of the trotting playmaking, and defense work. Captain Paul Davidson, Dick Post, and Paul Birdsall played most of last year on the first or second midfields. Other veteran mainstays at this position are Will Davis, Bill Graham, Dave Waring, and Ed. Thayer. Completing the spring trip roster will be Bill Plissner, Bob Baldwin, and Fred Chamberlin...
...workmen moved into the room last week with a wallpaper stripper, and proceeded to rip off the five coats of paper. A corner of the picture was discovered in the first few tears, and following that the workmen treated the operation with the greatest care. It took them a full hour of tense, delicate manipulation to entirely unveil the picture...
...influence of Levis spread, they changed a little with the times. "Alkali," a Virginia City miner, insisted on carrying rock specimens that ripped his hip pockets. The local tailor wearied of repairing them, one day seized a hammer and riveted the corners down with square iron nails. When this made Alkali practically rip-proof, Levi Strauss picked up the idea, from then on fastened all his pants' pockets with copper rivets...
...peaceful means to achieve peace throughout the world . . . situations from the age-old Fight for Freedom were selected in consultation with eminent historians. Details have been established as historically correct by a University research expert." Wheaties' fighters for freedom, in chronological order, are Zog, the stone age man, (fighting Rip, the sabre-toothed tiger), Arminius the German king, (fighting Varus, the Roman General), Joan of Arc, and Ethan Allen. Joan of Arc is portrayed mounted; she comes on one box, the horse on another. "Get Joan of Arc," the text urges, "mount her on her horse. Then she's ready...
Nevertheless, it will still take nearly a half hour to traverse the mile and a half from Harvard Square to Braves Field, or slightly less than it takes to walk the distance. And the ears will probably still run in bunches, six at a rip (five empty), followed by a refreshing fifteen minute pause...