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...commotion in the doorway has sounded his triumphant arrival and Nock shuffles up the aisle, tipping his cocked hat to admirers and gayly swinging a useless cane. As he hustles to the platform he appears flustered about the coming performance. He dumps out a stack or books and papers on the table and more or less tears of his monotonous black cloaking, revealing another layer of rumpled blackness. The first communication to the audience may be anything from a grin to an inimitable gargle -- one of those special Nock guttural noises denoting pause and hesitancy. Then a stream of words...
Prinie and Donahue were double winners here as expected, but the performance which proved the most spectacular upset and pleased the Crimson above all dope sheet predictions for the first time during the afternoon was Bob Houghton's triumphant 4:29.6 mile run. Bucking the wind on the back stretch, Houghton finally nosed out Yale's favored Mac Main by a foot, with Bob Young running another length behind...
...chairman of the Mediation Board, were all reluctant to call in the board except as a last resort. The risk of failure in this toughest of all disputes was much too great; failure would darken a good early record and spoil the growing psychological effect of a so-far-triumphant board...
Biggest news for the intercollegiate track world was Fran Maloney's amazing burst of speed with upset indoor I. C. 4A. champ Mike Prohodsky with a triumphant 7:06.7 clocking in the mile and a half distance. Crusader Maloney holds the N. E. A. A. U. two-mile title. Bob Kent with a fourth was Harvard's best against this competition...
...transpires that nearly all these people had apotheosized him as lover or as hero. As a false god he is colossal. After his death they weave in and out of their routine of like automatons, for the carried with him to his grave all dreams of passion satisfied or triumphant youth. Then, bit by bit, information drifts in of his indecencies, his commonness, and his betrayal of them...