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From: js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag)
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Subject: Re: harvard bridge and smoot
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Date: Thu, 8-Aug-85 14:55:04 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  8 14:55:04 1985
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> 
> As it happens, I knew Smoot's brother, Martin Smoot. He was a smallish
> very skinny young man, who was a little closer to the norm than the
> father in "back to the Future" back in the 1955. It is very easy to
> imagine how a rowdy bunch of guys would decide to roll him end over
> end to measure Harvard Bridge.

     Back in my sophmore year or so, a bunch of transplanted Bostonites
we'd acquired convinced us to try the same thing with a bridge in
Schenley Park, Pittsburgh.  We raided the bridge in the middle of the
night with a can of paint, several milk jugs of beer and a rather easygoing
guy named Frank (you guessed it) Smoot.  We had the bridge about 3/4 
measured when the Pittsburgh police arrived, who took a dim view of the
smoot marks we'd painted on the sidewalk.  
-- 
Jeff Sonntag
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