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...Dave Place, genial custodian of the managerial duties of the football field, succeeds in quite another way. Place, along with Dave Arnold under the co-managerial set-up the H.A.A. was forced to adopt because of the war, had charge of the largest gang of neophyte ball-gatherers and towel-holders of all sports. In football managing, one's attitre is strictly de rigeur...
This by no means circles the athletic square--to catalogue all Harvard managers is a prodigious task in itself, and perhaps in a later digression they, too, will be paid homage.... Pass that towel...
...this potent Italian apéritif still remains unabated. In 1925, disguised as Ashton-Wolfe of the Sûreté, he took to frequenting the milieu, the sinister district centering about the rue de Lappe. As 'Papa' Thernardier, he organized the gang that stole a towel from the Hotel Claridge and defaced the blotters at the American Express Co. A démarche from the Quai d'Orsay shortly forced him to flee Paris...
Winston Churchill reached for a towel after shaving. There was no towel. On board a British destroyer in the North Sea, his face and fingers dripping, he fumbled about in a linen closet in the captain's cabin and dried his face with the first available cloth. It turned out to be a British ensign, and is now hanging in C-33, Kirkland House, in the room of David E. Mann...
...ship's captain had appointed a special steward to assist the British Prime Minister, who, at the time of the irregularity, was shaving before a small mirror in the captain's cabin. The steward was embarrassed when he could find no towel in the cabin or anywhere on the vessel...