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Squirrels doggedly went on gathering nuts. Oak trees continued to shed their leaves, though with an embarrassed air as if committing some social indiscretion. But other flora and fauna rebelliously refused to believe that it was really autumn. Shad (rarely seen after August) swam back up New Jersey streams, querulously tried to spawn. The giddier of Washington's famed cherry trees blossomed. Dogs panted in upstate New York, which had been blanketed by snow four weeks before. Flies came dazedly back to life, mosquitoes whined, roses and lilacs budded. An ostrich in the Cleveland zoo squatted with springtime ceremony...
...gaming casino, or one of Port-au-Prince's two movie houses, the colonist was apt to see the same people-a writer of short stories for Collier's, a retired Marine captain, a rich cosmetics importer, a sculptor or two. Some sailed, some swam, some drove to resorts in the mountains, and some just sat on their porches in the moonlight, sipping rum drinks handed them by white-coated houseboys, listening to the beat of far-off voodoo drums...
...Skoglunds, Kosikow-skis and Kellys include one fancy-stepping freshman and an even 53 ex-serviceman stars. The line, a coach's dream, bristles with the likes of ex-Gob Zygmont Czarobski, a 213-lb. bonecrusher tackle, and 205-lb. End Jim Martin, a husky ex-Marine who swam ashore on a voluntary reconnaissance mission just before Tinian was invaded. And even if Perfectionist Leahy has not found him yet, Notre Dame surely has at least one express-train halfback up its sleeve somewhere. The real question is when he will be sprung. One good bet is squatty, slippery...
...beatings. The Betz Club romped up to Sweden, and played barelegged before 88-year-old tennis bug King Gustav. Then the other club members returned to the U.S., but Pauline headed for a Swiss resort (Gunten) to celebrate her 27th birthday with Millionheiress Barbara Hutton. They swam, jitterbugged and went mountain-climbing for ten days-Pauline's longest vacation from tennis in ten years...
...didn't do any good," he says, "so I started just using common sense." Common sense consisted of rounding up the best young prospects on an island where kids are naturally amphibious, then straightening out their faults. His first pupils, who could not afford to use private pools, swam their time trials in irrigation ditches...