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...evening final of the individual medley, before a scattered gathering of fellow competitors and a few stray ushers, Pringle took the lead at the first turn of his opening butterfly stint. On the backstroke lap, the versatile junior opened up a body-length lead over Dartmouth's Terry Bentley, a butterfly specialist, who was racing on Pringle's right...
That ended the scoring, but the fun was just beginning. Gene Kinasewich, an enduring target for stray elbows and sticks all season long, wasn't having any Saturday evening, thank you. He barged around aggressively early in the contest checking one Colby man through the boards, but his (and everyone's) big moment came at 16:39 of the final period...
...year the hunters return. When Swiss and German S.P.C.A. members staged a protest meeting, angry hunters bombarded them with birdshot. So far, the hapless Belchen's only hope is fog. On both the Swiss and German sides of Lake Constance, Belchen hunting in the fog is prohibited: a stray shot might nick a hunter, and this would be considered bad form, even for a Belchenjagd...
...long as the landlord would let you, and then you moved on. We were poor, we were poor. We're not proud of it, but we don't shun the fact that we were the poorest family in South Boston." The family stove was fueled with stray lumps of coal that Knocko and Dannie picked up in the railroad yards, and John's meager earnings were supplemented by a "pauper's basket" from the welfare department. "I had to go down to the Chardon Street welfare home and chop wood so we could get the basket...
Juncos & Jaegers. In San Francisco, a seventh-grader named Arthur Wang found a stray Slate-Colored Junco (rarely seen west of the Sierras), while elsewhere in the bay area his colleagues registered the Eastern Phoebe, the Pomarine Jaeger, the Hermit Warbler and the Saw-Whet Owl. From Oahu, Hawaii, a dedicated birder named Grenville Hatch reported sightings by her group of 500 Red-Footed Boobies, 452 Frigate-Birds, 433 Arctic Golden Plovers and one Long-Billed Dowitcher...