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...Whisker. In Mombasa, Kenya, Africa, a team of Sikhs, whose religion requires them to wear full beards, won a tug-of-war contest, solemnly accepted the prize: individual bowls of shaving soap...
...Midwest's Big Ten. At Northwestern, for example, 4.6% of the student body are athletes, who get only 3.6% of the scholarships. Grutzner also found that the colleges were not always to blame for the recruiting, subsidizing and win-at-all-costs spirit. Often it was "a tug of war, with educators pitted against Old Grads and local businessmen [and] the educators lost ground to those who put a Bowl bid above a Phi Beta Kappa...
...letdown in British Actress Gertrude Lawrence's performance. She does a competent job, marred by some confusion of accents, and her versatility enables her to flit coquettishly through a soft-focus flashback recounting the fancied conquests of her youth. Yet she never gives the role the emotional tug or the full measure of addled humor that it had in the hands of the stage's late great Laurette Taylor...
...Nightclubs, I hate 'em," grumped Humphrey ("Bogey") Bogart, who hasn't been kicked out of one since last September, when his stuffed giant panda got into a tug-o'-war with a brunette in Manhattan's El Morocco (TIME, Oct. 10). "The trouble with them is that you see the same old tired faces, the same drunks and the same dames...
...Skills. As a first step, the patients were moved to big, airy, first-floor wards with a view of the river's tug and barge traffic. Instead of cluttering the place with terrifyingly complicated equipment, everything was made as casual and simple as possible. Each patient was put to work for an average of five hours a day, learning or relearning the "100 average daily living skills." Each was assigned a card listing the skills to be acquired (e.g., walking, turning on lights, opening doors, turning over in bed, combing one's hair). When one skill was mastered...