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Last Monday, Norman, W. Shepard started separating the sheep from the goats. So far, he has found no goats. This doesn't surprise the new varsity basketball coach a bit, for, as he says, "I pretty much figured all along that I'd have to be starting from scratch...
Obviously, Little had to start from scratch this fall. He has three fairly experienced players, two backs and an end, who formed the so-called nucleus of the team; from there, Little and his nine assistants have had to experiment with sophomores and varsity holdovers with only a smattering of intercollegiate competition behind them...
...change in the new cloth is the abandonment of cotton, which Everett Nutter's older brother William first wove with mohair in 1906 to produce the original Palm Beach cloth. The new cloth will have just about as much mohair, but the "scratch" will be taken out by wrapping it in rayon and nylon. The mohair core, said Ward, makes the cloth almost wrinkleproof, the rayon makes it cool. With it he hopes to keep ahead of his rayon and worsted competitors with a suit that combines some of the features of both...
Better built, more attractive homes, more stylish and durable clothes could also be readily available. With precise enthusiasm, Prophet Moulton gives such detailed examples of potential progress as non-warp, non-scratch, non-splinter pleasure boats, and plastic violins which might all but rival the Stradivarius in tone...
Among the winners of the third annual Horatio Alger Award, as outstanding symbols "of starting from scratch": television's Dr. Allen B. Du Mont and Used Car Magnate Earl W. ("Madman") Muntz...