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...Uvalde, Texas, a spry, bowlegged little man with a stubborn back-hair cowlick celebrated his 71st birthday by packing a lunch (including a hunk of birthday cake baked by his wife), rode off after deer. Six days late was John Nance Garner in bagging his annual buck; but he was on time at the hunt campfire, where he dished up his special concoction-"Son-of-a-gun stew," which supposedly includes a dash of everything...
...outstanding line, Captain Austie Harding, Win Jameson, and Joe Patrick, and this year's forward trios will have to be drawn from relatively inexperienced lettermen. There will be no star of the first magnitude comparable to brilliant Austie Harding, but in time the Hoddermen may develop into a stubborn outfit...
...doctors had followed like hawks the zigzag progress of 124 drunkards (100 male, 24 female) in McLean Hospital, Waverly, Mass. "A more variegated collection of personalities," they wrote, "would be difficult to assemble: some were sociable, some seclusive, some stubborn, some easily influenced, some cyclothymic [manic-depressive], some schizoid [ingrown] , some intelligent, some dull and so on, ad infinitum; the only trait these people seemed to have in common was addiction to the excessive use of alcohol." Why they drank, the doctors found it impossible to discover...
...Yardling booters, after a hard-fought battle, triumphed over a stubborn Bulldog Pappy eleven 1 to 0 Saturday morning...
Winthrop rallied in the closing minutes of the game, and the final whistle saw the Big Red team far down in Prexy territory, but a stubborn Timothy Dwight defense, headed by Chaney, pope, Trudeau, and Johnson, prevented them from scoring...