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...does not matter, we repeat, who wins Of course, ever Harvard student wants his own stalwarts to win, and every Dartmouth man fresh down from the bills, his blood on tire with enthusiasm for his team, his Johnny Clayton, his coach McLaughry every Dartmouth student who has green blood in his veins will cheer for his team till he is hoarse...
...doctors who never tire of arguing about the age and origin of diseases, a Washington orthopedist rattled some old bones last week. Exhibited to the District of Columbia Medical Society was a collection of human bones culled with care from the Smithsonian Institution's vast collection by Orthopedist William J. Tobin. Beside each bone was an X-ray diagnosis of what ailed the long-dead patient...
...world where much is unknowable, Frost takes refuge in what is knowable, matter-of-fact and practical. "It's knowing what to do with things that counts." One of his favorite books is Robinson Crusoe : "I never tire of being shown how the limited can make snug in the limit less." For himself, Frost asks a wall against intrusion of knowledge, or people, a fence "between too much and me." What is beyond those fences, says Frost, is no man's business. It is "the canyon of Ceasing to Question What Doesn't Concern...
...tough on all the others." She likes to send back such me-&-the-war stories as: "A reinforced American patrol, accompanied by this correspondent, this afternoon barreled eight miles deep through enemy territory . . . The jeep flew faster than the bullets which knicked just in back of our right rear tire...
Cars were halted in two half-mile-long lines at the Matanuska Valley town of Palmer. Blankets and C-rations were assigned, though not actually issued. But mechanics inspected every gas tank, oil gauge, transmission, differential, battery, oil filter, radiator and tire to make sure everything was in working order. Soldiers handed out dummy orders and authorized mock money allotments, and women were instructed on driving in convoys for the sake of safety...