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...shot. Half a minute later, Co-Captain Ed Cahoon tipped the puck in to climax a ganging attack. The Crimson was one man short during both of these scores, and the defense didn't seem to be able to handle B.U.'s extra-manplays. The Terriers, clearly faster and sharper-passing, set up and took any shots they wanted...
...Capp, the cartoonist-creator of Li'l Abner, probably has a sharper eye for slobs, monsters, hags and fiends than anyone alive. This means that his eye is very sharp indeed, for the modern slob seldom slobbers and in the 20th Century even monsters are apt to use both Vitalis and Zip, grease themselves liberally with Mum or Dew, and consult a dentist twice a year. Capp is not fooled. At times, in fact, he seems to suspect that the world is peopled exclusively by bloated big businessmen, brainless editors, venal politicians, sadistic cops, cruel stepmothers and shambling, leaping...
...alumnus with a blemished war record (while a pilot in England he took time off between bombing runs to murder his wife's lover). This tragedy has somehow reduced him to running a Chicago handbook that is always being raided by the police. In desperation, Heston turns card sharper and, with two cronies, fleeces a sucker of $5,000. The sucker commits suicide, leaving behind a wife and child as well as a maniacal brother who sets out to eliminate the gamblers. He throttles two of them and has a lethal half nelson on Heston before the police intervene...
After she went to her berth, "I sat drinking my milk and thinking about tier," writes Author Farrell. Readers will wish that he had thought longer, or that a sharper writer had done his writing for him. For while Dream Girl is built around a pretentious theme, Author Farrell can muster only nine undercooked stories to support it. His more familiar squalor tales and mass-and-class ruminations pad out the rest of the book, but they justify their intrusion only a couple of times. The Fastest Runner on Sixty-First Street (a sprinting champion who runs straight...
...Brandeis team, despite the many Yardling mistakes, was clearly the better club. The line outcharged the freshmen all the way, and the backfield looked sharper, especially on pitchouts. Quarterback Dick Cunningham passed well throughout most of the game. Three times he was trapped but managed to squirm away for good gains...