Word: scratch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Scratch. In Seward, Neb., one Merle Burkholder dislocated his shoulder scratching a match...
Walter Huston plays the Devil with demoniacal glee. Disguised as Mr. Scratch, a quizzical Yankee trader with a duck hunter's cap, bristly sideburns and stubble beard, he is a puckish tempter. Whether he is getting Daniel plastered, playing the bass drum in the village band, or spryly nibbling a carrot, he seems to be hugely enjoying his part. He is the kind of Devil most people would like to know...
Although Daniel bests him at the trial, it is Scratch who has the picture's last word. Perched on a rail fence, full of the peach pie which Ma Stone baked especially for the victorious orator, he thumbs jauntily through his address book for a fresh victim. And the person he picks makes any audience gasp...
Trailing Jillson by 27 seconds across the line came Junior Hugh Tuttle, but the real here of the afternoon was last year's Freshman star, Bill Palson, who finished third in the race but whose actual elapsed time was the fastest. Of the eleven men starting from scratch, he was the first to finish with a time of 23:49, which brought him the Varsity time prize...
Following him in order across the finish line came Sophomore Phil Foisie, Junior Bob Kent, who was the second scratch runner to break the tape, and Junior Bob Troescher. John Sopka, the only other scratch runner to finish in the first ten, came in seventh, while two Yardlings, Paul Coggins and Hamilton Hughes placed eighth and ninth...