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Roger Hallowell, ace center of the Crimson team in 1932, was so rough on shoes that he found that the speed shoes were left in tatters at the end of the second half. He decided to concede the speed to the sturdiness of the practice shoes and thereafter were only...
One night last week the Rajah's cousin stepped out across the Rajah's steaming acres. A snarling sounded nearby. Down a corridor of trees the cousin looked into the slavering jaws of 80 police dogs, charging out of the night. He began to run. In the morning...
Last week, near the farmer's home, lumbermen brought down a tall pine tree. High in the branches they spied an eagle's nest. They came close to examine it. What they found made them cross themselves. There, surrounded by tatters of baby clothing, lay the skeleton of...
Peter Ashley, scion of one of Charleston's first families, had no wish to be a planter. His skeptically intelligent uncle adopted him, developed his doubts, protected his sensitiveness, sent him to Oxford to finish his education. He was to come back to a literary career. But the first...
Career: After a public school education he was taken to Washington by his father Charles Frederick Crisp. Confederate veteran and Georgia Representative (1883-96), who got him, aged 19, a clerkship in the Interior Department. When his father was chosen Speaker (1891), he got a job as House parliamentarian -experting...