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...Giants never seemed to know what to do about Jack Roosevelt Robinson. Their pitchers threw baseballs at his greying head and their bench jockeys winged epithets at his quick temper. Still his big bat, or darting base running, broke up ball games. The very sight of his pigeon-toed trot to position moved the fans on Coogan's Bluff to borrow from Yankee territory that ultimate complaint, the long Bronx cheer. Even when taking their lumps from every other team in the league, the Giants usually managed to play good ball against the Brooklyn Dodgers, but they never really...
...said one of his instructors, Ike was "a not uncommon type." He moved through four years from 57th out of 212 to 61st out of 164, accumulating demerits for such offenses as "using profanity at supper" and "violation of orders with reference to dancing," e.g., doing the turkey trot. On the football field, Ike became a star halfback who once downed Jim Thorpe ("We really stopped him-hard") and might have made All-America had he not wrenched his knee...
...heroine of this latest hymn to grandeur and glory by British Historian A. L. Rowse (The Expansion of Elizabethan England; The English Past). When empires decline and the spirit of reckless adventure ebbs, there are always a few men like Rowse to blow the old trumpet furiously and trot out the glorious dead as an example to the pusillanimous living. "History," says Rowse, "is an extension of life into the past: there are lessons to be learned, and people should learn them...
...usually effective. With the exception of a little mechanical following of blocking, the production is generally excellent. Each escape is impressive: with most of the old stand-by HDC'ers doing the escaping and Hal Scott aiding and abetting them, this little bundle of abnormality is well worth a trot over to Agassiz...
...cutthroat competition between the various "intellectual brothels." It also led to a certain degree of specialization. Wolff's and Parker-Cramer, for instance, competed for the leadership in the field of widely advertised mass reviews. Fairfax Hall became important in the prepared notes and "trot" field. Whatever specialized programs the schools offered, they all made efforts to contact section men and instructors to find out the latest information--and possible exam questions--about courses. Sometimes they succeeded...