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Watchers obscured in the recesses of third story boudoirs eyed the crimson-wearers' unique 7-1 defense with critical eye until the hard charging line roared into the girls' backfield. With their wits about the, however, the swivel hipped runners were, as always, hard to lay a hand on and managed to wile their way touchdownward. "Skidmore'll be a pushover," one bedungareed spectator was heard to remark...
George Bernard Shaw, who, at 41, climbed off his soapbox to become socialist member of London's St. Pancras borough council, was prevented (by a fall) from receiving the council's belated recognition: freedom of the borough. He had tumbled from his swivel chair and bruised a leg. But he delivered an acceptance speech anyway (by radio transcription). Said Shaw: "When one is very old, as I am . . . your legs give in before your head does. Consequently you're always tumbling about. I tumble down about three times a week . . . and . . . it was perfectly plain that...
Suddenly ex-G.I. Halfback Bob Livingstone, a star in '42, swivel-hips his way past three tacklers before being slammed to earth 40 yards downfield. "See," says Funless Frank bitterly, "he didn...
Whatever his chief target may have been, Generalissimo Joseph Stalin's peace talk, like a swivel-mounted machine gun, raked world affairs from a variety of interesting angles last week. The talk consisted of answers to nine apparently prearranged questions by London Sunday Times Russophile Correspondent Alexander Werth...
There was, for example, the short, happy life of Tom ("Shorty") McWilliams at Mississippi State. For one dazzling season in 1944, Freshman McWilliams, a swivel-hipped halfback, looked like the best up-&-coming player in Southeastern Conference history. No one was surprised when Shorty showed up on West Point's unbeatable 1945 team. There were plenty more like him; they turned up three deep at both West Point and Annapolis...