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...soon returned to buy or lease most of the other buildings. He thought of rebuilding the whole town. But the more he looked at the buildings, the more their quaint, ghostly flavor got him. Result: when he hired Designer Herbert Bayer as architect, Mr. Paepcke (who is the principal backer of Chicago's arty Institute of Design) gave orders that Aspen's once-Gay Nineties atmosphere was to be preserved to the last piece of gingerbread...
...December 1, carrying for considerable yardage and two first downs. He caught a fifteen-yard pass for another first down, but early in the second period, after taking a pass out from Sid Luckman, quarterback in Bear T-formation, suffered a sprained ankle when hit by the Cardinal backer...
HENRY GOETHALS, who seldom handles the ball, except in the T formation, is an iron man who played 60-minute roles against Rutgers and Holy Cross. As a backer-up, he has been an efficient hole-plugger all season...
Other Crimson stars, as singled out by Harlow after the game, were Nick Rodis and Jim Feinberg, whose play at guard was excellent, and the ubiquitous Jack Fisher, whose performance as backer-up was outstanding...
...from Chip Gannon to Captain Cleo O'Donnell, the Cantabs pulled off the neatly-blocked and neatly-faked off-center line smash that is one of Harlow's favorites. Moravec lunged toward the center of the line, then veered over the left guard hole as Coulson took out the backer-up who had been plugging...