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...Navy bird dog who spotted Staubach was Cincinnati Businessman Rich ard Kleinfeldt, and he still comes to a twanging point every time he thinks about it. The only son of a salesman, Roger was the original Wheaties ad-neat, well-mannered, studious, and absolute murder on a football field. By the time he was a senior at Cincinnati's Roman Catholic Purcell High School (B student, nine-letterman, president of the student council), the whole city was talking about his Saturday afternoon heroics. "Purcell had a reputation for being a school where the quarterback never got dirty," says...
...Many a studious observer has seen for himself that male insects use special tricks to woo reluctant females. Crickets and grasshoppers are musically inclined; butterflies lean to perfumes; mayflies spice up their seductions with dancing...
Bang or Bust. Bill Cosby is a shy and studious young Negro comedian who went to Temple University, where he was a good student, a football halfback, and a multipurpose track athlete. He got his early experience in coffeehouses in Greenwich Village, where he used to tell race jokes, but now that he is booked into the big time (Chicago's Mister Kelly's, San Francisco's hungry i, Manhattan's Village Gate), he has decided to bang or bust as a general comedian rather than as a colorful colored man. He has worked...
...another example. In the winter it annually gives birth to a new generation of Harvard Men. In the summer, to the horror of old Harvardians, it quarters hundreds of girls who blithely desecrate the Hallowed Ground. Lamont, for another illustration. In the winter it is the chaste home of studious young men, but in the summer, when the ivy grows unchecked over the windows in the Houses, Lamont discloses its secrets to the curious of both sexes...
...ringed by 87 houses of study for various orders, giving rise to the nickname "Little Rome." One-third of the 5,300 students are nuns, priests and other religious. The effect is unusual-pretty coeds in skirts and sweaters mixing with bearded Capuchin brothers in robes and sandals and studious Sisters of Chari ty in swooping white headdresses...