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Aboriginal Ideas. "I'm just a rookie at football, I'm no expert," Rickey kept insisting to everyone within hearing. But when pressed he remembered coaching football 40 years ago at his alma mater, Ohio Wesleyan, and the "aboriginal ideas" he picked up there. To his coach, Carl Voyles, who is also in his first year at pro football, Rickey said: "Modern football is speed. Give me four players-a center, a good passing back and two tall, sprinting ends-and you can have the rest." Voyles outbid the National League's Pittsburgh Steelers for a "good...
Like Balaam, the leader hadn't started out that way. A fortnight ago, Rival Editor Cummings had given the Beaverbrook press a resounding thwack. "The Daily Express," he wrote in his News Chronicle column, "seems to have the British Empire on the brain ... It opposes Marshall aid and Western Union as policies inimical to the Empire [and] keeps up its dreary drip of criticism unfortified by any rational alternatives...
...Rome a fortnight ago, two music critics fought a duel over their critical opinions, left the field of honor only after one was pinked in the arm. Last week, a soprano at Milan's famed La Scala bopped a critic for having written that she was "suffering from a slight vocal eclipse" in a performance of Aïda. Next day, the Milan Journalists Association condemned opera singers who assault music critics, praised the "chivalrous" music critic for not hitting back...
...years ago Britain's BBC barred hypnotists from television (TIME, Dec. 30, 1946) because of a private test during which four of six BBC staffers went to sleep. In Paris this spring, Egyptian Fakir Tahra Bey allegedly hypnotized part of his studio audience and some of his countrywide listeners over a Radio Diffusion Français program...
...competition is tough. Black Diamond Steamship Corp., a veteran on the Lowlands run, is also out for subsidies, and U.S. Lines and Waterman Steamship Corp. are opposing federal aid to their competitors. But Bernstein is in a fighting mood. His maxim, coined long ago: "All business is a kind of war and you stand a fair chance of winning if you stick to your guns...