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This game was more than a warmup against paunchy veterans from yesteryear. The alumni featured Gene Kinasewich, now playing on the Eastern Olympic Hockey Club, Bob and Bill Cleary, stars of the U.S. Olympic hockey teams in '60 and '64, Ike Ikauniks, all-East for Harvard two seasons ago, and John Daly and Wade Weich, last year's captain and goalie, respectively...
...Harvard freshman football team plays Brown in Providence today, and the contest should prove a not-very-strenuous warmup for the Yale game next week...
...that she was inclined to be lazy; to keep painful calcium deposits from forming in her ankles, she had to be "fired"-a process in which a veterinarian cauterizes the ankles with a hot iron. She has also had her share of bad racing luck. Last month, in a warmup race for the Alcibiades Stakes at Keeneland, Moccasin broke so badly that she was ten lengths behind the field by the time she got untangled. She still won the 6½-furlong race by three lengths, repaying her shaken admirers at the rate of 10? on the dollar-the minimum...
...gala was only a warmup. Next day Lyndon and Hubert and their entourage crisscrossed the city tirelessly, ebulliently, paying calls at receptions and parties that seemed to be glowing everywhere, like so many hearthsides on a winter's day. There was a good deal of social handicapping about which ones were the really chic occasions (among the leaders: a joint reception given by Philanthropist Mary Lasker and Washington Lawyer Abe Fortas, parties thrown by Gwen Cafritz and Perle Mesta...
...means 'a wild ass' "), and McCutchan is an odd coach. A balding, soft-spoken math teacher, he has a notion that the game ought to be played for fun. He wears flaming red socks ("for luck"), dresses the Purple Aces in bright orange road uniforms and warmup robes of yellow, red and green because "I like some color, and purple is hard to see." McCutchan limits his own recruiting to the environs of Evansville (eleven players are Indianians), refuses to play against "coaches who don't enjoy the game...