Word: vag
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rheinhardt, Rheinhardt, I'm a most indifferent guy . . . But I love my Vincent . . ." Vag was back in his room, listening to records and recovering from Yale weekend. Funny, he used to listen to that song and think of how it fit. Used to agree when his friends called him the most indifferent guy. And then he saw a football game...
...Vag lit another cigarette and put on "Body and Soul." Three days after the game, and he still had a lot of vivid impressions. Players and spectators pounding anyone within reach after the field goal. More of the same after Richards' punt return. Then the picture got blue. Something seemed to snap when the referee called that play back, but Cleo's interception put the players back on their feet. And then there was the horrible nightmare of number 14 going diagonally across the field with nobody in Crimson around. The failure of that last-minute drive was just...
...slouched out of several doorways, others stood in groups, some were cleaning their thick glasses. They all wore American Legion caps. They smiled at a few youths who skipped along with physics books under their arms. Some of these men in blue coats and Legion hats were marching around. Vag decided that it was an American Legion Convention...
This wasn't like an American Legion convention. Then Vag noticed that none of the Legion caps had state insignia on them. They were all alike. Vag remembered that before he went away for the weekend the Yard had been full of men in khaki summer suits. He went closer to the crowd. It was still the Navy, he decided; they all had southern accents...
Going back on the train Vag remembered that the WAVES were going to be a t Radcliffe, too. Come January, he thought with horror, they'd be all over. He might not be able to crowd through to his usual position at the pinball machine...