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Yale has decided to crack down on the towel situation. Discovery of an annual loss of $3,600 caused the director of the Yale gymnasium to start a get-tough policy during the last two months. Harvard authorities, meanwhile, stated that a similar situation does not exist in Cambridge...
...Some colleges, unable to meet the postwar pace of big-time football, had already given up the game entirely. Last week, after 60 years of football, Georgetown (2-7 last year) also threw in the towel because of "the uncertainty of the times." In all, 16 colleges, e.g., St. Mary's and Duquesne, have dropped the sport since the fighting in Korea began...
...Pattern. Many of Big Crime's big men have paid Kefauver the compliment of disappearing. Jake Guzik vanished from the steam room next door to Chicago's Crime Commission, where he conducts his business over an ivory-handled telephone with a towel around his sagging middle. Charlie Fischetti could be found neither at his Miami estate, nor in Manhattan's Stork Club, nor in the duplex penthouse atop 3100 North Sheridan...
Last week one of Dickie's friends asked him to play Indian. He agreed. But at the last minute he decided to try a different game. He put on a yellow sweat shirt, tied a bath towel around his neck like a cape. The boys headed for a 25-foot embankment. Dickie walked back from the brink, turned, ran as hard as he could, and jumped out into the air. He fell on his stomach. He lay on the ground, scratched and dirty, and unable to get up. His mother, summoned by the playmate, hurried him to a doctor...
...National Collegiate Athletic Association's "sanity code," which prohibits the wholesale hiring of football talent, University of Richmond had won its reward-defeat in twelve of its last 14 football games. Last week, after wrestling with the problem for three years, President George Modlin threw in the towel. Richmond is abandoning the code, he announced, as the only alternative to withdrawing from the rough & ready Southern Conference, where four colleges are already in open defiance of the code...