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Being the Point's best all-round athlete was something else again. After he got the upper hand of his studies, he became the all-conquering football team's top scorer. He gave up indoor track to play on the Point's potent (won 14, lost 1) basketball quintet. As center fielder on the baseball nine, Junior won a $75,000 appraisal label from Dodger President Branch Rickey. In West Point's famed Master of the Sword test-the 300-yd. run, dodge run, standing broad jump, vertical jump, bar vault, rope climb, chins, parallel...
Thursdays Off. Canadian-born President Harold Taylor studied philosophy at the University of Toronto, intending to write novels when he got through. At his graduation in 1935 he was astonished to find himself awarded a scholarship "as the best all-round man" in the class. He stayed on for an M.A., took his Ph.D. at London University. Then he got a teaching job at the University of Wisconsin, took out U.S. citizenship papers, and with a young English wife settled down in a remodeled barn for what he thought was a lifetime of philosophy and writing...
...unpleasantness only with a picture story on Brazil headlined: "Starving Negroes Can't Eat Racial Equality." Despite the fact that her show folded before it reached Broadway, Ebony's 19-year-old pin-up girl Sheila Guys (caption: "A Star Fizzles") benefits from Johnson's all-round cheeriness: "Folks back home in Forest, Miss. are betting she'll turn up again one of these days out in Hollywood...
...music and lyrics. The show-Straw Hat Revue-went to Broadway in the fall, and lasted ten weeks, which was long enough for Danny to attract some attention. He married Sylvia a month later, and thereby acquired first rights to her talents as script writer, songwriter, idea-man and all-round coach. As usual, she is in full charge of the new radio venture...
...selection emphasizing the lead, tenor and bass successively, to give the G.I. student the idea. Then it supplies the missing parts, so that the G.I. can learn in turn to sing lead, tenor and bass. By the time he is through the cycle, the G.I. has become an all-round barbershop expert, able to sound off, at the clearing of a throat, with any part of Old Man River or In the Evening by the Moonlight...