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...crackers sat in the sun, their backs to the decaying summer house and watched the strangers. Irwinton seemed full of strangers, their cars raising clouds of red Georgia dust. Said one resentfully: "We had a white man lay over in a swamp near Big Sandy Creek till the buzzards ate him up, and they found his bones. We didn't have a single newspaperman look at the bones. But seein' as Picky Pie is a nigger he makes headlines." Irwinton was reacting to 1949's first lynching...
...days and a lot of his beloved Russian proverbs to do it. Britain's Ernie Bevin grunted impatiently as Vishinsky hammered away: France's Robert Schuman fidgeted in his chair. But Dean Acheson, knowing that Vishinsky was talking-and had to talk-for the record, coolly waited till the Russian had run down. Then he submitted a proposal for settling the Berlin dispute...
...days of this sort of thing should suffice to bring the crews back to the physical peak necessary to end their season unbeaten. Bolles has a more humane theory of how to coach a crew than his Yale counterpart, Allen, Walz, a devotee of the work-em-till-they-drop school of though. While Harvard crewmen are allowed to sit around and dissipate most of the winter, the hardy Elis are out on the river, simulating Washington crossing the Delaware. Theoretically, this will make them strong to the point of invincibility come the Harvard-Yale four mile pull in 'late...
...Generally accorded the courtesy title of Prince, Aly will in fact have no official status till he succeeds his father as the Aga Khan. He will then have in British protocol the rank of first-class Chief, entitled to a salute of eleven guns...
...penalties six for one burly defenseman Lawrason Sayre, and Harvard got nine. The final game left the varsity with an exactly even 6 to 6 record. But all but one of the wins were foregone conclusions, while the team to beat--Yale, Dartmouth, Williams--were not beaten, But wait till next year, Bill Harkness...