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...Westminster College, Missouri, where Sir Winston Churchill in 1946 focused the thoughts and fears of the world into a memorable phrase -"Iron Curtain" -the Old Warrior's cousin, Irish Critic Sir Shane Leslie, passed on a few newsy nubbles about his famed relative: "You know, his father never thought that Winston had the brains for college. Winston got his education as a subaltern in the campaigns of the India frontier. He took with him to India three books, Macaulay's Essays, Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and a work by the Irish historian...
...Spectatoritis is the nation's No. 1 fitness problem," said Shane MacCarthy, executive director of the President's Council on Youth Fitness. "I was at a recruiting station recently, and the doctors there told me they've detected a new ailment-heel fractures among soldiers learning to march. They haven't used their legs enough to be ready for the exercise they get in basic training. We do too much sitting and looking when we should be out doing...
Several local standouts will be playing their last match for the Crimson this afternoon, including flank John Chalsty from the Business School and including seniors Jim Joslin at fly-half, Joe Conzelman in the centre, Ron Eikenberry on the wing, and Bill Shane and captain Terry Turner in the forwards...
Close marking by the Crimson backs and hard tackling by the forwards, especially captain Terry Turner, Charlie Eaton, and Bill Shane, kept the Dartmouth threequarters more interested in the opposition than the ball, but the Indians picked up three points on a penalty kick with fifteen minutes left, and came within a yard of scoring a try two minutes before the end of the match...
While the forwards, led by John Chalsty and Bill Shane, were having all they could do to hold their opposite numbers the Crimson backs played a better game than those from Cal. Prospective Bear movements were broken up by quick tackles, or, just as often, dropped passes while the Crimson concentrated mainly on a conservative kicking game...