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...Colonel Bodley's letter re Eton's whipping block [TIME, Jan. 24], there are a few reminders of a visit to Eton . . . The whipping block . . . had the birch rod standing beside it looking like a broom for sweeping garden leaves, but with a very stout handle. My wife said: "That wouldn't hurt much." The reply was "Madam-I would like you to remember there's nothing between the boy and the birch...
Grahm Taylor, Laurio Griffin, Gerry Genn, Rod Nordbloom, Gordy Abbott, Tim Wise, John Hart, and Skiddy Lund represented Harvard...
...pound affairs, featuring Joe, Kozol and Bob Abboud, should be fairly even fights; King's opponent, Abe Allen, lost by one point to Dan Ray last year; Chuck Olentine, who will face Harvard's Rod Skinner at 155, bowed to Don Louria for two years but was never pinned; Stan Thompson, at 165, will be rated over Dean Mulder; Claflin will take on Philo Lange, former Exeter wrestling captain and an All-American lacrosse player...
Harvard will try to buck the competition with the team of Graham Taylor, Laurie Griffin, Gerry Gonn, Rod Nordblom, Gordy Abbott, Tim Wise, John Hart, and Skiddy Lund. The competition includes downhill, slalom, cross-country, and jumping, held tomorrow and Saturday...
...flogged one from rising to defend himself from the headmaster's assault. The school messenger now opens the door of the sixth form room, and the headmaster rustles in in his robes of office. A third prepositor goes to a cupboard, from which he takes the birch rod and ceremoniously hands it to the headmaster. The headmaster approaches the kneeling boy and, holding the handle of the birch with both hands, smites the bare behind of the boy six times. He then hands the birch back to the prepositor and rustles out of the room again. No word...