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...oddities of ventilation make it the only place outside the malarial zones where a man can get a chill and a sweat at the same time. The experienced take these rituals (and a couple of sleeping pills) as a matter of course; the inexperienced lie sleepless while the car is shuttle-cocked for long hours in midnight switchyards...
...that's not the attitude down here. Somehow, he word has gotten around that "Harvard is loaded," and Columbia coach Lou Little will assure you that he spends sleepless nights worrying about such Crimson stars as Gannon, Moffle, Kenary, Drvaric, Houston, Rodis, Fioritino, DiBlasio, and Guthrie, who he feels could make Harvard tougher then Yale and the equal of Rutgers...
Tossing on his canopied bed in his crenelated castle, Prince Vittorio spent sleepless nights, sweating with worry. Later he said that he worked out this argument: "If we live in a capitalist world, that land is ours because it has belonged to my family and Arsoli for generations. If we live in a Christian state and the capital takes water from us, it should at least not let us starve." The young prince remembered that his family includes two Popes-St. Anastasius (died 401) who denounced the Origenist heresy, and St. Pasquale (died 824) who stood up to the Frankish...
...Sleepless Night. Three weeks ago, when he set out for Evanston to compete for a berth on the Olympic team, he suddenly realized that he was on his own: "I wish I could have brought Shirley Ann along-she kind of organizes me." At the Great Lakes Training Station, where the athletes were quartered four to a room, all his roommates talked about was winning. The night before, he couldn't sleep a wink. Next day in the 100 meters,* he got a slow start and lost out to veteran 30-year-old Barney Ewell, who won in world...
Next morning, after a sleepless, studious night, Ham Andrews returned to the fray. He accused Brown of: (i) reading questions from a 1942 test; 2) not giving him the multiple choices which the test provided; 3) reading only questions at the end of the test, which, said Princetonian Andrews, only Harvard men are supposed to answer. And furthermore, he added: "I got the first one right...