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...Cadet's fastest runner and leading ground gainer, with an impressive 147 yards in three games. Top yards-pertly man is Pollock with an average of 8.4 in 15 tries. Galiffa, quarterback in the Army T, usually relegates the running game to his associates and concentrates on baffling the backer ups and throwing passes...
...Smith once said, "Look at the record." And the record shows that the grandstand quarterback was wrong. Take his theory that Harvard should have used more end runs. Now look at the facts. Cornell has one of the fastest teams in the country. That means that backer-ups should be able to get to the flanks quickly to squelch end runs. On the Harvard side of the picture, the Crimson's one breakaway runner, Hal Moffie, was out of action. And two men who must throw crucial blocks on end-around plays, quarterback Bill Henry and running guard Howie Houston...
...raiding CBS) launched a female counterattack with The Ethel Merman Show (Sun. 9:30 p.m., E.D.T.). The program's tenuous story line has dark, bouncy, 41-year-old Ethel Merman, ably assisted by ex-Juvenile Star Leon Janney, trying to sell a new revue to a somnolent backer-Homer Tubbs, the Syracuse floor-mop king...
William Helis, known in New Orleans as "The Golden Greek." Beginning as an immigrant dishwasher in New York, Helis hit it rich in California and Louisiana oil. Helis was the biggest money backer of Earl Long. In 1939 he was involved in the "hot-oil" scandals with New Orleans' former mayor and Huey Long henchman, Robert Sidney Maestri. Helis is a one-man lobby for Greece (he is a supporter of the royalist faction), once owned drilling concessions for the entire nation. He keeps a racing stable in New Jersey. During the war, he turned his yacht over...
...grossness" with "immense enthusiasm and no discrimination at all." Since then, Berle's theatrical record consists of two moderate successes (See My Lawyer and the Ziegfeld Follies of 1943) and, most recently, an immoderate flop (Spring in Brazil). He has also flopped several times as a producer and backer. As a producer, he did so much tampering with one show that, an observer recalls, "When it opened out of town, everybody on the stage looked and talked like Berle...