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They also serve who only stand and wait, even if it's only with a towel and a sweater. First football casualty of the season was a non-combatant, John P. Judkins '47, Varsity manager. He beat everyone to the bruise by reporting for pre-season practtice with a bandaged wrist...
...this before I became a Communist." A colleague cracked: "It wouldn't take two years of it to make Cox a Republican." But no one laughed. Georgia's ultra-reactionary Eugene ("Goober") Cox was so moved that when he got back to the train he gave his sweater, necktie, other odds & ends of clothing and all the chocolate he could buy to a group of Essen's children who had gathered at the train shouting: "Uncle, uncle, chocolate, chocolate...
Secret Service men were hastily stationed in the tourist-packed gallery. The President, unannounced, stepped into the chamber.* Grinning like a schoolboy about to receive his lettered sweater, he walked to his old desk. Senators and visitors gaped, then applauded...
...little girl fall from a jetty. He ripped off his Savile Row jacket and plunged in after her. But a dinghy got there first. Sir Hartley rose from the waters, a study in frustration and soggy drawers. He addressed the meeting in borrowed pants and an old sweater, to which hecklers were especially attentive...
...give the customers something extra-a comedy act. When they played at schools (Barnard, Smith, Duke, etc.) Sarah, the straight man, appeared on court looking for Pauline, who then charged out in a man's size 44 trunks (she takes a woman's size 12), a sweater dyed a "nauseating orange," only one shoe, and a raincap flopping on her red hair. Her racket was warped to about the shape of a spoon. The slapstick tennis lesson began...