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...most important hold-overs from Harlow and Harvard strategy of yore is the policy of kicking on third, and sometimes second, down. Designed to "make the break" for the Crimson, the idea depends on a high-calibre punter and fast wingmen. The point, as illustrated amply in the W. P. I. encounter by booter Walt Coulson and several hard-charging Lamar linemen, is to keep kicking after one or two running plays, until a break comes, in the form of a fumble by the punt-returner, or a blocked kick...
Junk: Chinese ships of yore or Japanese fleet of the future...
...thrills but no surprises. Its starred newcomer is fragile Lalage who, hanging by an arm to a rope, flapjacks herself an incredible number of times in the upper air. With a two-cycle, five-man act, the perennial Wallendas outdo their past achievements on the high wire. As of yore, The Flying Councellos leap, Elly Ardelty stands on her head on the flying trapeze, Massi-milliano Truzzi juggles flaming torches. Tigers walk treadmills, horses curvet superbly and Harry Rittely sits atop seven tables and topples over backwards...
...Gene sat glumly by the radio, staring suspiciously through his horn-rimmed glasses at the voice which told him his days as Georgia Governor were numbered. A news photographer entered, asked for a big smile in case the trend changed by the morning editions. Ol' Gene snapped: "Git yore pictures and hurry...
Some of us have remarked within the past couple of years how his clarinet playing seemed to have deteriorated, that it his lacked the verve and snap and inventiveness of yore. not only in his commercial products of popular airs, but in his too infrequent jazz records, his solos have been adversely affected by his full-dress symphony performances, for the cold, pure classical clarinet tone Mozart wanted sounds cold and pure when transferred to jazz, where tone can express so much...