Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other coaches taught their teams the Warner unbalanced line and the fast-breaking Warner single wingback formation. Pop went right on building winning teams. He went back to Cornell for a few years, later to Pitt, where he had four unbeaten seasons in a row. In the mid-'20s he moved to Stanford, developed such All-America stars as jolting Fullback Ernie Nevers and End Ted Shipkey. Pop continued to try new tactics. In the Rose Bowl in 1925, his team showed a flashy double wingback formation against Knute Rockne's Four Horsemen of Notre Dame. Stanford lost...
...Fisher, 69, creator of the comic strip Mutt and Jeff; of cancer; in Manhattan. Starting in 1907 with a sports-page cartoon about a chinless horse-race tipster named Augustus Mutt, Fisher added runty, harebrained Jeff four months later, made a merry fortune (at his peak in the '20s he earned $300,000 a year) whirling them around on a ceaseless merry-go-round of fights, skulduggeries and amiable confusion...
...Journalism. In creating her own highly successful Newsday, Alicia Patterson has also created a new form of U.S. journalism. It is as perfectly in step with the new trend in American life-the flight to the suburbs-as tabloids were to the jazz-happy '20s. When she launched Newsday on alligator-shaped Long Island in 1940, Publisher Patterson set out to violate every canon of sedate, well-mannered and deadly dull suburban journalism. Instead of loading her paper with name-dropping personal columns, handouts, accounts of tea parties and bake sales and local news that would offend...
...generously sculptured proportions, wish to add my two cents' worth on Dior's new styles [TIME, Aug. 9 et seq.]. What's so new about this new look? There must be plenty more biddies like myself who remember the so-called fashions of the '20s that made decently shaped women look like sacks draped with rags...
Died. Lloyd Morris, 60, author, critic, social historian; of cancer; in Manhattan. In the '20s, studious ("Reading is my major vice"), Manhattan-born Morris was a notable Paris expatriate, at one time or another wrote in nearly every prose form, but achieved his real success in the late '40s as a nostalgic recorder of 20th century America ("the most exciting place in the world") in Postscript to Yesterday and Not So Long...