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...Take yer hatsoff!" cried a cop in brogue as seniors, debating the advantages of hook-and-eye over zipper gowns, shuffled by the statue of the founder of our nation's oldest and richest institution. Across the Common, where the girls commenced, it was all over by the kissing; for Harvard, only a dry run at the "Rump of Sever...
...foremost, and look what happened to him. And New York City has passed a law forbidding adults to fly kites in Central Park unless they are accompanied by a child ten years old or younger. Even the expression "Go fly a kite" has taken on the tone of "Ah, yer mother wears army boots...
...blimey, why carn't you Americans use English proper when yer wants ter be colloquial? Yer don't half muck us up. It took me rahnd abaht five minutes to find out what yer meant wiv "Things did not go half badly" in "Down the Middle" [March 19]. Eiver you says "Things did not half go badly" (viz: They did go badly) or, as in American English "Things didn't go top badly." Honest, I fink you'll find I'm right, 'cos I'm one of them British secretaries in New York...
...Washing ton, Vesper did not figure to offer much competition to the younger col lege crews. Their average age was 26, and only the presence of two under graduate ringers from La Salle College kept it that low. The part-time coach, Allan Rosenberg, is a Philadelphia law yer. The coxswain, Robert Zimonyi, is a 46-year-old Hungarian refugee. The captain, Bill Knecht, is 34, a plumbing contractor, the father of six. But in the semifinals, Vesper shocked the experts by beating Harvard, the undefeated Eastern champion, by two lengths...