Word: wristed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jimmy Redmon is still out of the lineup, but this week another shift in the weights provides first string men right through the team with the exception of Harry Blaine at 128. Pete Illman has recovered from his injured wrist and will be wrestling at 145 this week, ten pounds lighter than he was before. Meanwhile, Bruce Richardson has gone down to the 136 pound class...
...piano work goes, you have to admit that Lionel's wrist action is marvelous--but nothing much else comes out . . . "I Can't Get Started" by the same band is much better, with Hampden playing some of the best vibes he has in years. Incidentally Dame Rumor has it that Chu Berry, Cozy Cole (both of Calloway's band), and Clyde Hart are going to be with Hampden in his new outfit...
...wondered for whom examinations could have been invented if not for the students. The faculty? Of course the faculty had to deal out grades; and grades were based on examinations. Vag wistfully remembered how he got an E for an upset stomach and an A for his flexible wrist. Shuddering, he pictured the dim Victorian Gothic church in which he had squatted tensely over his bluebook, too paralyzed to think, trusting implicitly his flying hand to remember what had evaporated within his brain. No, Vag decided energetically, if examinations and grades are bedfellows, let us chuck them both...
...pound class. In a tight battle that lasted very nearly the entire nine minutes, Pete Illman finally succumbed to Welles' power and was pinned in 8:07. Illman, who has never been pinned before in his entire Varsity wrestling career (he is a Senior), was handicapped by an injured wrist and by the fact he was wreatling the best Army...