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...simple: put stick-to-itself Velcro on a sphere that is roughly the size of a tennis ball. Apply the same stuff to two mitt- size disks that have a strap across the back for a handhold. Presto! A craze known variously as Magic Mitts, Scatch, Katch-a-Roo and Super Grip Ball. On streets, playgrounds and at the beach, players have added their own fancy moves, twisting into pretzel shapes to make behind-the-back catches, or getting a grip on the ball while doing a high-kick. Another trick: strapping a mitt on each hand to grab...
...store Sharper Image chain, whose typical customer is described as a man in his early 40s. What's the allure? "When the economy gets tough, you need a diversion," says Stephen Sandberg, owner of Sanco Toy Co., in Foxboro, Mass., who has shipped 100,000 Scatch games. "You look for something simple to do. You use your imagination, and make up your own rules...
...Mile Run--Won by G. C. Shepard 4E.S., (200 yds.); second Edward Gordon '27, (scatch); third, L. J. Novogrod...
High Jump.--Won by Charles Jenney '26, (4 in.), 6 ft; second, A. F. Jones '25, (scatch), 5 ft., 11 in.; third, T. L. Mayhew...
...Scatch a statistician and you find an alarmist. Almost everyone who makes a practise of collecting tables and figures, and argues therefrom, has his own per theory of what will happen to this unfortunate republic in another twenty years if something or other is not done at once, or if it keeps on increasing at its present rate...
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