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Squatting in the middle of the Rugby College campus in England is a small monument bearing the inscription. "This stone commemorates the exploit of William Webb Ellis, who with a fine disregard for the rules of football, as played in his time, first took the ball in his arms and ran with it, thus originating the distinctive feature of the Rugby Game...
...together to add one more preface to his long and brilliant stock. It is entertaining, but not too entertaining to obscure the fact that perhaps the only things Shaw consistently believed in were himself and that lean deity, Creative Evolution, a sort of mixture of Lilith and Mrs. Sidney Webb. Apart from that he never made a joke which he did not sooner or later pass off as truth, and never stated a truth that he did not eventually turn into a joke...
Like millions of Indians who follow in his train, Nehru is a paradox. He is not a typical Indian: he is a Westernized Oriental. Beatrice and Sidney Webb, the godparents of Fabian Socialism, are in a truer sense his creators than Vishnu and Siva...
...Brilliant Buccaneering." The dispute moved on. The T.U.C.'s Scottish branch canceled an invitation to Bevan to address their annual conference. A statement on behalf of 110,000 County Durham miners declared Bevan's resignation "unwarranted." Food Minister Maurice Webb echoed: "We really cannot have Mr. Bevan's brilliant kind of buccaneering." Hugh Gaitskell, in a speech at Glasgow, hit back openly at Bevan, called for a ceiling on welfare services until rearmament is achieved. He said he was convinced that raw materials shortages, one of Bevan's big talking points, would not defeat the arms...
Stuffy McInnis is not yet sure who will be his starting pitcher today when the Crimson meets Army at 3 p.m. on Soldiers Field. "Probably either Bob Ward, Spider Webb, or John Donelan will start," the coach confides. Ward, Webb, and Donelan are virtually McInnis entire pitching staff...