Word: americae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Finally a bowlegged halfback in a white and gold L.S.U. jersey plucked a bouncing punt out of the air on his 11, and All-America Billy Cannon set out for glory. He shrugged off one red-jerseyed tackier, ran right over a second. At midfield, Cannon surprised Mississippi's Fullback Charlie Flowers by cutting back instead of trying to go to the outside. (Admitted Flowers, an all-America candidate himself: "It was like a high school player trying to tackle an All-America. He went through my hands like nothing.") Cannon was all by himself when...
Cannon, whose father works as a custodian in a Louisiana State dormitory, sold pop and peanuts at L.S.U. football games as a kid, naturally enrolled at the university desoite the 50 offers he drew as a high school All-America. A predental student (B average) with a wife and three daughters, Cannon may well be the strongest fast man, or the fastest strong man, in the world. Square and solid (6 ft. 1 in., 207 Ibs.), he puts the shot 54 ft. 4½ in. (world record: 63 ft. 4 in.), rips off the hundred in 9.4 sec. (world record...
...billing. Shrugging off the rain that swept Yankee Stadium, the Air Force recovered an Army fumble, slammed up the middle for a first-period touchdown on a play that crackled with the power of the old flying wedge. But Army slashed back with its customary crisp blocking as All-America Halfback Bob Anderson scored two quick touchdowns, threatened to turn the game into a rout as the half ended...
...Chicago Tribune's Jules Dubois, it was pretty much the same old story: in nearly 30 years as a correspondent covering the political turmoil of Latin America, he had been mauled by Peronista hoodlums in Argentina, threatened by Panamanians, and beaten by Communist thugs in Guatemala. Last week he seemed about to be torn to bits by one of Fidel Castro's Havana mobs...
...Mouse That Roared (Highroad; Columbia). One day at the height of the silly season, H.R.H. the Grand Duchess Gloriana XII of the Duchy of Grand Fenwick graciously declares that a state of war exists between Grand Fenwick and the United States of America. When the declaration is delivered to the U.S. Department of State, the only reaction it gets is a tired snicker from a bored bureaucrat: "Those guys in the pressroom. All the time making jokes." After all, Grand Fenwick is the smallest independent country in the world, a few square miles left over from the Middle