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Somewhere on southeastern Hudson Bay fortnight ago solid ice or snow-drifted muskeg echoed back the hammering exhaust of a ski-shod plane flying north. Aboard were an inspector and a corporal of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, a doctor, a radioman, a pilot. They were headed for a barren mass of stone low on the surface of the Bay, the Belcher Islands. The reason for their flight was murder...
...been sworn into the Army of the United States, shipped to reception centres (Draftese for Army camp). Nearly 99% of the 20,000 were draftables who had volunteered for one year's training without formal drafting. At 29 reception centres rookies were shucked out of mufti, inoculated, vaccinated, shod and asked such questions as: "How many nickel cigars can you buy for 20??'' "How many dozen will 42 oranges make?", asked to say whether a pistol was a gun, a knife, a sword or a pencil...
This week Collector Hill published his glorified football album. Football Thru the Years (Gridiron Publishing Co.; $2.50) depicts the history of U. S. football-from Rugby's Bigside and Eton's Wall Game (British-born ancestors of U. S. football), through the white-canvas-shod, stocking-capped era of the '80s, down to the latest award made by the Touchdown Club-with turn-of-the-century photographs, cartoons and illustrations by such artists as the late great Arthur B. Frost and Frederic Remington. Among its outstanding illustrations : Artist Frost's sketch of the Yale-Princeton game...
...Madness I loathe-abhor from my soul, beyond all power to utter, hate in my bones all crack-brained geniuses and near-geniuses, all emotionalism, eccentric gesturing and posturing, extravagance! Boldness, yes, audacity, boldness is all, the one indispensable thing - but quiet, decorous, wedded to the proprieties, velvet-shod with irony. That is how I am, that is what I will...
...four corners, yelling at the Negro women, asking them "How would you like to have this [rope] around your neck?" Terrified Lillian Blake promised to lead them to her man's hiding place. Someone pointed out that the two women, both barefoot, could walk faster if they were shod. A committee crowded into a store to buy shoes...