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...expand his hobby. He phoned the Lincoln and St. James High Schools and made them a standing offer. Each year, he said, he would send off four or five of their students, no matter what their race or religion or where they wanted to go. Soon a steady stream of youngsters was filing through his office-the sons & daughters of elevator operators, mechanics, and factory hands...
...reported the bribe offer to Maryland Coach Jim Tatum. "Why didn't you kill the guy?" Tatum growled at Quarterback Scarbath. Then Tatum called the cops. Against L.S.U., the fired-up trio and their teammates ran up a 34-0 score before Tatum relaxed and sent in a stream of substitutes. Final score, well above the gamblers' spread...
...history. In 1890, James Colby Colgate gave one million dollars to a school called Madison University in Hamilton, New York. Out of gratitude, the school's director junked the name Madison and replaced it with the donor's name. In following years, a procession of Colgates poured a steady stream of money into the growing University, until new, not only the college but its library, swimming pool, Freshman Union, and administrative offices bear the name of assorted members of the toothpaste family...
Many of his passages resembel those of Dostoevsky and Thomas Wolfe at their stream-of-consciousness best. But in a sense he transcends both; for while they mask themselves as characters in novels, Koestler admits that he is laying bare his soul before his readers. He also has the advantage (questionable to be sure) of a familiarity with Freudian psychoanalysis. One wonders whether the author has not gone a bit overboard when he uses this method to explain his youth in Budapest. It is difficult to believe that a man can become so detached from himself as to reveal...
...Mariano Brull, Cuban Minister to Belgium: ". . . The poet is in a wanting without wanting, which, like a disordered stream, runs towards that which attracts it with an illuminated trembling...