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...varsity heavyweight crew meets Yale Saturday on the Thames in New London, Conn., in the 96th renewal of America's oldest intercollegiate event. The Crimson is a slight favorite in the four-mile downstream race. Freshman and junior varsity crews from both schools also compete in the afternoon...
What made this scene unique among thousands of similar spectacles on U.S. playing fields was the identity of the kicking coach: Amos Alonzo Stagg, who celebrated his 96th birthday on Aug. 16. It was extraordinary enough that Stagg, who was born seven years before college football (Princeton-Rutgers, 1869), had lived so long and punctuated his life with a series of brilliant firsts in several sports. But more remarkable yet was the state of his mind and body after almost a century of enormous activity...
With a front-lawn place kick, Amos Alonzo Stagg warmed up to watch a football game between two teams of Sacramento Valley high school allstars, who dedicated their contest to the grand old man of football on his 96th birthday. All set for his 68th coaching season (as advisory punting coach at California's Stockton College), the Yale '88 All-American and onetime coach of the University of Chicago, the College of the Pacific, and Susquehanna University found paydirt in the congratulatory mail. Among the notes from old quarterbacks, halfbacks and fullbacks were 10,690 greenbacks-insurance companies...
...Times Critic Jack Gould or the readability of the New York Herald Tribune's syndicated (90 papers) John Crosby. But in terms of his effect on which way the dial turns, he is the nation's most influential TV critic. Last week the Tulsa Tribune became the 96th newspaper (total circ. 15 million) to take his TV Key. Among other subscribers: the Chicago Tribune, Philadelphia Bulletin, Baltimore Sun, Los Angeles Herald & Express, Detroit Times, New York Journal-American. A survey of viewers in Kansas City, where TV Key runs in the Star, estimated recently that a Scheuer boost...
...like Curt LeMay, is no West Pointer, was an auto dealer with a reserve commission in the Air Corps until he was called to active duty in September 1940. Squarejawed, blue-eyed, thoroughly able, he rose with phenomenal speed in wartime to command the Eighth Air Force's 96th Bomb Group at a ripe 36, led the first shuttle-bomb raid (from England to Russia and back), the famed Schweinfurt raids, flew 43 combat missions, became LeMay's director of operations in 1953, is now commander of SAC's Fifteenth Air Force...