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...addition they have a very serious injury problem. "We're hurting and badly," was the way their coach, Steve Sebo, put it yesterday afternoon; and to prove his point, he proceeded to tick off the names of eight of Penn's best 22 players who have not been able to practice at all this past week...
...National Foundation could tick off a substantial victory in its battle against polio. In the U.S. this year there have been 913 cases of polio reported, as against 1,979 at this time last year. But 438 of this year's cases have been specified as paralytic, only 317 nonparalytic (the rest are unspecified). Inexplicably, out of a hearteningly smaller total of cases, a higher proportion are paralytic: 58% as against 46%. Nobody knows the reason for this. Some 70 million Americans have now been vaccinated (50 million with three shots); since some do not respond to the vaccine...
...York's Carter Handicap. But Belmont's Handicapper Jimmy Kilroe reckoned that Wheatley Stable's dark bay Bold Ruler was just the colt to do it again. The Ruler carried the weight to the wire, 1½ lengths in front of Howell E. Jackson's Tick Tock...
...audience "orchestrate" with him-buzz to simulate loud strings, sing "tick, tick, tick" for a woodwind sound and "takata" for the brasses. "Oo," he commented, "seemed to me sort of bluish. When we sang 'takata' it seemed like a fiery orange." With a flick of the wrist in midsentence, he would bring in the 107-man New York Philharmonic to illustrate his points, rapidly skipping from Mozart to Stravinsky to Hindemith. The finale: a rousing performance of Ravel's Bolero, part of which he compared to "very high class hootchy-kootchy music...
...fictional proxy fight leans heavily on recent headline-splashing struggles, notably the Louis Wolfson-Sewell Avery duel for Montgomery Ward. Author Brooks, 37, handles the mechanics of such a contest with authority and relish. He also poses a more serious psychological question: What makes a big company raider tick...