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That figures. In football, experience counts, and you'd have to say that Cornell's line has experience. Back from 1963 are the first three tight ends, five of the top six tackles (the one missing was a third stringer), all of the top six guards, and the first and third-string centers...
...members who are American citizens, the intimate knowledge that the part-time correspondents abroad have of their countries makes an invaluable contribution to our perspective. In a somewhat different way, our part-time correspondents across the U.S. provide local knowledge and feeling that an outsider might easily miss. The stringers make their contribution not only by what they report directly to the editors and writers in New York, but also in the guidance that they give our traveling correspondents. Many a full-time correspondent, writer and editor has a particularly close knowledge of what a stringer can contribute-because...
...best of our overseas stringers find themselves collaborating these weeks on an international story that has special nuances in their countries: the marriage of Denmark's Princess Anne-Marie to Greece's King Constantine. TIME'S man on this story in Copenhagen is Knud Meister (cable address: TIMEISTER), one of Denmark's best-known journalists. A top staff member of Copenhagen's leading daily, Berlingske Tidende, he is also author of many books. For the past year, Meister's daughter, Birgit, 22, who wants to follow in her father's journalistic path...
...Bertrams were having their own woes. Harold Abbott's Rum Runner developed a 4-ft.-long crack in the cabin; the radio was smashed, and a reinforcing stringer had broken loose from the hull. In Lucky Moppie, every time Bertram tried to switch to his main fuel tank, his engines quit. Then, maneuvering at the check-in station on Cat Cay, Lucky Moppie slammed into another boat, knocking it into a sea wall and out of contention. Miraculously, Lucky Moppie kept going...
When I first looked at the program last night, I thought for a moment the Ivy League had revived Spring football. John Hoffman, Bill Grana, Tom Stephenson, Bob Stringer and John Hartranft populate my personal pantheon of grid heroes, not thespians...