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Not since he bucked the lines of Penn as fullback on Cornell's football team of 1900 had Fred Perkins known the heady excitement of the past six months. Gallingly hard and obscure to a onetime football hero had been the years between. Most of his college mates including Standard Oil's Walter C. Teagle and Publisher Frank Gannett lately heard of him for the first time in more than 30 years as Fred Perkins prepared to buck the mighty line of the New Deal....

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