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...when he insists that he would rather be a messenger (it's safer) at the Mutual Trust company than a director, the hero delivers the key line: "All right, Mr. Kubinsky, anything--bank director, bank messenger, vice-president -- help yourself!" And that is just what this hero, Christopher Stringer, did: he walked into the bank, appropriated a desk, stirred up an imaginary deal about which only he knew anything, thereby making himself indispensable--and waited for things to pop. They did, the final explosion coming in a directors' meeting in which the deal is discussed, approved, and launched...
...shouts when it looked as if something might happen, the players went on grimly playing. In the middle of the fifth overtime period a drowsy spectator got hit by the puck. He was revived. Play went on. The period ended scorelessly. Exactly 16½ minutes later, a Detroit second-stringer named Modere Bruneteau took a pass from his teammate Hector Kilrea, made one more perfunctory shot at Maroon Goalie Lorne Chabot, who had already stopped 66. The red bulb that flashes when a goal is scored gave a sudden and amazing wink. Sleepy watchers and exhausted players rubbed their eyes...
...late Coach Fred Mitchell has been making catchers out of every unoccupied stringer on the Varsity baseball squad. The other day he told large Al Berry, "from Baltimore, suh," to get behind the plate. When Al came walking out in his armor the squad was definitely skeptical. Charlie Nevin's remark was "Well, Al, just keep your hands in your pockets and your eyes closed and nothing will happen...
...choices leave the secondary with a decided military tinge. But the Army backfield seems to be about the best that has appeared here this fall and although Sebastian is relegated to the second team, his vicious blocking and sturdy line-bucking earn him equal honors with the first-stringer, Britt of the Crusaders. Britt had a punch through the line that caused Harvard plenty of trouble. The second backfield almost explains itself although Morris of Holy Cross should rate almost even with Karaban of Brown in the fullback berth. There was some hesitation on the part of the judges, since...
Robert Nelson Stanfield, onetime U. S. Senator from Oregon, was seriously injured by an automobile near Huntington, Ore. Witnesses told this story: Mr. Stanneld came upon John Stringer, foreman of a sheep-ranch, who had parked his car near where some one had cut a wire fence. An altercation arose as to who had cut the fence and whether or not it should be closed before Stringer could drive through. Suddenly Stringer climbed into his car, let in the clutch and, spurting, ran Mr. Stanfieid down...