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...look beyond this weekend, things aren't too rugged. Columbia was absolutely overwhelmed by the same West Point group which had little to offer a month ago against the Crimson. Penn is pretty much unknown in these parts, but they precede Yale by only a week, which is somewhat of a problem in itself. All in all, the best thing seems to be a quick crossing of the fingers at this point. Much depends on the Dartmouth trip...
...through the primitive underbrush pads an occasional mountain lion. But the summit of Palomar Mountain is one of the high points of the 20th Century. For there stands the dazzling new 200-inch telescope that will peer a billion lightyears* into space-man's deepest look at the unknown universe he lives...
Boasting seven wins against one loss, the yearling quintet meets an unknown quantity, Penn Charter, tonight. Charter, a new addition to the basketball schedule, stands high in its own league...
...quite sure what had set them off: the flashing performance of a violinist unknown to San Francisco audiences, Russian-born Tossy Spivakovsky, 37, or the wonders of the work he had just played, Béla Bartók's only concerto for violin...
Every schoolchild knows what success attended their efforts; it is a commentary on the writing of American history that most of the men themselves are unknown. There are volumes on the staff officers of Robert E. Lee, but who, aside from students, knows George Wythe and John Blair, James Wilson, Luther Martin, William Paterson, Richard Bassett, Jacob Broom or Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer? Something is wrong with any definition of greatness that excludes them...