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Molloy, five foot nine inch junior from Fairfield, Connecticut, has come a long way since the last two minutes of the 1951 Yale game. At that time, he had just set up the Crimson's third touchdown with a sloppy pass into the flat; rotund Herman Hickman sent Molloy into the game with this advice--"you pitch 'em out kid, and I'll start heading out of town." Molloy did indeed "pitch 'em out," connecting for four of five for 65 yards and a touchdown. And although Hickman has since left town, Molloy is still pitching them...
...rotund and genial creator of the comic strip possum had a little difficulty with traffic conditions in the Square and arrived a few minutes late for his scheduled lecture. Kelly, in fact, spent the first part of his informal talk explaining to students his impression of "the way a person in a uniform must feel when surrounded by so many people without uniforms...
...height of voluptuousness came in the first scene of Act Two. Blanche Thebom may not be the world's most beautiful Amneris, but when I saw her lounging on her divan being fanned and bathed by dozens of slaves, I couldn't help wondering why Radames chose the rotund Aida instead...
...best, no comic strip was more whimsically humorous than Crockett Johnson's Barnaby. The world of five-year-old Barnaby was peopled by such characters as McSnoyd, an invisible leprechaun who talked with a Bronx accent, Gorgon, a talking dog, Gus, a friendly ghost, and a rotund, urbane fairy godfather named J. J. O'Malley. O'Malley's cigar doubled as a magic wand and usually kept him and Barnaby at odds with the slow-witted real world around them...
Although the poll dips into various other possible causes for this season's dismal showing, ("Has alumni pressure been excessive this year?") it centers most of its probing on the rotund Hickman...