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...natural, aggressive heart," and better yet, "horses under the hood." Wally's own formula, he says, is knowing when to pull out when other swimmers are relaxing, and "usually that's enough to sneak me in." Swimming that way, he managed to sneak in ahead of ex-Yaleman Alan Ford at London last year; but he has yet, swimming that way, to sneak inside Ford's world record of 49.7 for 100 yards...
...depend sololy on the type of wit referred to in the first sentence: the humor of the iconoclast. Now, there's no one who enjoys more than I the prospect of Orphan Annie getting her due, which, in this instance, comes in being taken advantage of by some drunken Yaleman (and later handed over, a hopeless reprobate, to the making of Li'l Abner), but the initial joy of such humor is soon dissipated, and by the time the reader wades through a fight-fixing Joe Palooka and a baby-killing Dagwood, he begins to long for the world...
...Yaleman Stewart, who succeeded his father as president of the A.C. & Y., got his transportation know-how by building his road into one of the most successful short-line carriers in the U.S. Last year it netted about $1,000,000. His conveyor belt, he thinks, will do even better. To finance it, he has already lined up backers who will put up the $210 million construction cost, and take bonds which Stewart hopes to pay off in 20 years. Stewart intends to start building his conveyor in a year, have it running in three...
Bill Murphy is no part of the newspaper tradition that copyreaders are just broken-down reporters. A Yaleman ('17) and onetime Wall Street bond salesman, he left Manhattan to work on the News-owned Detroit Mirror. When Patterson torpedoed it without notice in 1932, Murphy went back to the News to stay...
...fine hand of some Yaleman...