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...season with a fluke loss to Weseleyan, then held prachtically every opponent scoreless the rest of the way. (Princeton didn't even get of a short.) Harvard played a magnificent game, probably its best of the last three years, but lost, again in the rain, 2-0. Fans are sill taking about the play that saved the game: a scissors kick by halfback Pat Migliore of a shot that had already gone over the Brown goalie...
RICHARD P. SMITH PFC, U.S.A. Fort Sill, Okla...
...were not Viet Cong captives but trainees in a gruelingly realistic prisoner-of-war course at Fort Sill, Okla. Roughest of its kind in the Army, the course is designed to toughen artillery-officer candidates for the kind of torture and humiliation under which many prisoners cracked in Korea. In the year since the course began, about 6,000 officers have completed...
...sense of humor and ice water in his veins. But neither was the case. Witness the day that he was sitting in the office of a bureau chief when the door burst open and a member of the staff came whooping in, bottle in hand, tripped on the sill and fell full-length in front of the Editor in Chief. The bureau chief explained to his startled boss that the young man was celebrating the birth of a son. Harry started to laugh and finally said: "Well, aren't you going to give us a drink?" It turned into...
...statement is made in a parable about a potter who is happy making pots. All day long the wheel turns and the plant on the window sill sings like a bird. Then one day the door to the potters shop bursts open and a vast impersonal Hand walks in. It smashes the potter's pots and arrogantly commands him to reshape them in the image of the Hand. When the potter refuses, it plies him with presents. When he continues to refuse, it threatens him with death. Finally it ties strings to his head and hands and turns...