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Columbia's 12-7 win over Rutgers was equally shocking. Trailing by a point, the Lions drove 63 yards in the last quarter to upend the Scarlet Knights. Columbia quarterback Rick Ballantine had his finest afternoon of the season; he completed 14 of 22 passes for 144 yards...
...period has seen the spilling of more blood and sanity than others, but because it seems more than others to be the era of the average man, who obsesses authors with the similarities of his predicament rather than the individuality of his struggle. Many novelists nowadays tend to upend art to write about predicaments instead of people, but war novels and madhouse novels survive even this treatment. No matter how pale are a novelist's people, shot, shell and psychosis will set them off in a fascinating dance that closely resembles life...
...picture Can-Can because we very much enjoy the Soviet artists you have sent to this country." After Frank introduced the song Live and Let Live, he said to Khrushchev: "It's a marvelous idea." And as he heard Frank talk, watched Shirley and the chorus girls upend, Khrushchev grinned. Going back over the Disneyland outburst, he said that the studio commissary had been hot, and he had been hotheaded, and he even apologized for his words. When Kim Novak was ushered up to him, Khrushchev said to Kim: "You realty wowed Mikoyan...
Says he: "With certain qualifications, I was a lonely and shy boy." Princeton seems to have brought out the qualifications. Lambert joined an eating club where, when the "food got too bad, we would upend a long table and shoot the whole mess through a window and out into the street." He recalls: "It did not seem at all odd to have five rooms and finally, in my junior year, to have a limousine with a chauffeur . . . Now and then [the chauffeur would] drive me in my Peerless limousine . . . from my rooms to chapel, a mere few hundred yards. This...
...first full day of Ivy League football play Saturday saw all the visiting teams upend their hosts. Besides the Crimson's 32-7 win over Cornell, Yale whipped Columbia, Princeton crushed Pennsylvania, and Dartmouth edged Brown...