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...scrimmage started with the home team on offense. Harvard lined up with Dike Hyde and Fred Ravreby on the ends; Bob Stargel, a last-minute addition to the first string, and Phil Connelly, tackles; Bill Rosenau and Jerry Kanter, guards; Paul O'Brien, center; Carroll Lowenstein, quarterback; Dave, Warden, wingback; Captain Phil Isenberg, tailback; and John West, fullback...
Captain Phil Isenberg, after a trial run at quarterback, is now at left half. He is only moderately fast, although he runs hard. Dave (Crazy Legs) Warden is the wing back and the powerful West, fullback. Jordan sorely needs a real breakaway back, a "gone with the wind" type of runner who could make the fullback a more potent threat by keeping the weak side defense constantly on the alert...
...Author-Warden Clinton T. (The San Quentin Story) Duffy suggested, in the New York Times Book Review, that crime sometimes pays: the prisoners "learn to talk at San Quentin. Our debating teams go against the colleges and usually win. Why do they? Well, I always say, they have more time for research...
...Jordan's number one team for the past few days. In addition to Hyde and West, there are six 1949 lettermen on this team; left tackle Phil Connelly, who has been converted from a guard; right end Fred Ravreby; guards Jerry Kanter and Bill Rosenau; Isenberg; and wingback Dave Warden. The eleventh man is Red Lewis, first string junior varsity center last season...
California. Pasadena cops writing an examination for sergeant's ratings found themselves unable to define such low-down underworld terms as gopher (safeblower), third rail (incorruptible official), derrick (shoplifter) and kite (a letter sneaked past the warden). Crooks don't talk that way in Pasadena, they complained. The chief of police agreed, ordered all "detective fiction crime terms" stricken from the exam. Said one cop who got a higher score than his mates: "I'd read a short story in the Saturday Evening Post the night before, so I knew most of the answers...