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Misogynist. In Philadelphia, a cockatoo named Scratch-Patch picked open the lock of his cage (where he lived with six lady cockatoos), moved to another cage, where he pried open the door and moved in with eight bachelor parrots...
...dying men lay on the battlefield for five days. The only escape for a wounded man was to be helped from the field by his comrades. This was a fact that able-bodied soldiers soon learned to take advantage of: a casualty who had suffered only a slight scratch was sometimes helped to the rear by seven or eight unhurt soldiers ("the Civil War version of the escape mechanism [now] known as 'psychoneurosis...
...Scratch a football coach, and you generally find a man who fancies himself an amateur psychologist. Among Crisler's homemade convictions is the belief that a coach's approach to his players should vary with their national origins. Italian boys, he says, need encouragement because they are lethargic in action. Scandinavians are the hardest to stir up ("I begin needling them on Tuesday"). He plasters the locker-room wall with cautionary signs. This season the warnings are directed against overconfidence. Says one: "There are no savings deposits in football. It's what you do in each game...
...more reliable of the plethora of gridiron scratch sheets foisted on the public by "experts" who see one game per week and, on this basis, place over one hundred teams, the publication rates Virginia eighth...
Although F. Kafka '49 was the first runner to cross the finish line outside Nowell Boat House, his corrected time of 22 minutes, 58 seconds gave him only sixteenth place. Jack Cogan, the former Melrose High School speedboy, Paul Friedrich, Bill Baker, and Charley Worth all starting from scratch, had the best times in that order. They are all Varsity...