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There is still, of course, a reasonable doubt that the Cappon-coached five will make a playoff necessary. Stranger things have happened in the Eastern League than a title-bound entry's blowing a supposed setup to a second division quintet. The Princetonians face Columbia at home on Wednesday and Penn in the Palestra on Saturday. Until these games have been won, it would be folly to plot how to stop Olsen or what to do with Munroe's one-handed flips in a playoff...
...stranger to big jobs is Admiral Robinson. For the past two years he has been in charge of the Navy's new Bureau of Ships, is rated in naval circles as the real powerhouse of the building program. Looking more like an underpaid bookkeeper than a military man, he appeared some 50 times before Congressional committees, patiently explaining the Navy's needs...
...Dodds was no stranger to Garden fans. They remembered his first appearance in the Millrose Games three years ago, when he was a sophomore at Ashland College (Ohio). Because little Ashland had no track team, Dodds had learned the ABCs of foot racing by correspondence with Lloyd Hahn, onetime mile champion who lived in his home town...
...West Highland-in appearance a snow-white cousin of the popular Scottie-is a comparative stranger to most U.S. dog fans, though familiar to viewers of Black & White whiskey ads. There are only 120 registered with the American Kennel Club. Wolvey, a four-year-old bitch owned by Mrs. John G. Winant, wife of the U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, has dominated her breed in 60 shows since coming to the U.S. three years...
...Salt Lake City, a woman trying to move a large radio through a doorway saw a stranger in the hall, asked him to help her, explained she was getting the radio out of sight before the tax assessor came. She was too late; he was the assessor...