Word: alonzo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago Amos Alonzo Stagg reached three score and ten, was told that he was through as faculty member, athletic director and football coach at the University of Chicago.* For 41 years he had taught football there, was credited with such innovations as the tackling dummy (his first was an old mattress), and numerals for players' jerseys, had contributed more to the technique of the game than any other man in the country. He was the "Grand Old Man" of football...
...Grand Old Man Stagg was not through. Instead of accepting a $10,000-a-year sinecure as Chicago's representative in Big Ten Councils, he got a job as football coach at the little College of the Pacific. Last week 76-year-old Alonzo Stagg, still spry and ruddy in his 49th year of coaching, came back to Chicago, sat on a hard bench in the stadium that is named after him and, with mixed emotions, watched his smart little Pacific team trounce the Maroons...
Centre of a sentimental homecoming celebration, Alonzo Stagg may have pondered the changes that have taken place in U. S. football since he was named on Walter Camp's first All-America in 1889, may have moaned over the low estate of the East's Big Three and his alma mater, Yale, in particular (beaten by Princeton last week...
Leave It to Me! (book by Bella & Samuel Spewack; music & lyrics by Cole Porter; produced by Vinton Freedley) is big-name, big-scale, big-town musicomedy: the season's first show to fetch $6.60 on opening night. It tells of simple-souled Alonzo P. Goodhue (Victor Moore), snatched from happy hours of horseshoe-pitching in Topeka, Kans. to be ambassador to Soviet Russia. His one desire is to get fired. He kicks the Nazi ambassador in the belly and the world cheers. He takes a potshot at a stranger who turns out to be a dangerous counter-revolutionary assassin...
...authors of "Boy Meets Girl" have turned an amusing newspaper yarn into a play that is as illogical and hilarious as most of their writings. An ace correspondent (William Gaxton) undertakes to win for his chief (Edward H. Robbins) the job of ambassador to Russia by discrediting the incumbent, Alonzo P. ("My friends call me 'Stinky'") Goddhe, who is portrayed by Victor Moore. The task turns out to be more than Gaxton had anticipated even with Mr. Moore's complete cooperation until he finally abandons the assignment and tries to make his victim the best-loved diplomat in the world...