Word: alma
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Besides shifting Stephens to his new position. Yovicsin has moved Robert Yates from his post as assistant to freshman coach Henry N. Lamar, to the vacant spot left by Serafino D. Fazio. Fazio has decided to join the football staff of his alma mater, the University of Pittsburgh...
...Eagles win the finals today, they will be the first Massachusetts team to win since 1954 when Cousy's alma mater, Holy Cross, was the champion...
...schoolmarm. Himself an M.S.U.-trained ('23) poultry breeder, he became president of the International Baby Chick Association, supervised egg production for the NRA during the Depression. At 32, spurning an offer of $18,000 a year from a Chicago food-packing firm, he returned to M.S.U. as his alma mater's $4,500-a-year business manager. He chose wisely. By 1941, he had married the president's daughter and succeeded his father-in-law in the front office...
Often the toughest negotiating for an agent is in trying to land a star client. Some enlist the help of teammates with the promise that the agency will make a sizable contribution to the player's alma mater. Other agents play the wine-and-dine game. Halfback Chris Gilbert of the University of Texas felt he was being red-dogged by agents all season long. "If you even sounded interested," he says, "they'd get you anything you wanted. Pro Sports threw a party in New York for the All America team, and there must have been...
...Oskar, the memory lingered on. Four years after their separation, Alma heard that he had acquired a life-size doll that was painted to look like her. She reported: "The doll always lay on the sofa. For days on end Kokoschka would lock himself in and talk to no one but the doll. At last, he had me where he wanted me: helpless in his hand, a docile, mechanical tool." But she too remembered, and kept the fans always with her as affectionate mementos until her death in Manhattan...