Word: backes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...touchdown, Notre Dame had won the national championship and finished its fourth undefeated season in a row. But the Irish had been in a football game and they knew it. Said Coach Frank Leahy: "The best team we've met all season . . . Kyle Rote is the most underrated back in America...
Most eyes fell on a six-year-old chestnut stallion named Wing Commander, the Man o' War of five-gaiters, beaten only once since he was a youngster of three. On Wing Commander's back was a wiry little man named Earl Teater, who had taught him everything he knew about "gaitin'." His owner, Mrs. Frances Dodge Van Lennep, watched from a seat...
...less than Communist propaganda. Last week N.Y.U. students forgot to disagree about it long enough to denounce removal of the mural as "a direct attack and violation of student rights and the usurpation of the powers of student government." As a matter of principle they wanted the mural sketch back; they got it, together with a promise that Collins would be permitted to finish...
More than 200 Milwaukee merchants had launched a cooperative drive, sparked by the "Milwaukee Archconfraternity of Christian Mothers," a Roman Catholic group which has already plastered city buses and streetcars with 1,200 posters bearing its slogan: Put Christ Back Into Christmas. Starting Dec. 11, some 275 taxicabs will display pictures of the Nativity. Hotel and theater marquees will carry the slogan, as will 160 billboards, automobile stickers and daily radio and TV announcements...
...Back in 1937, Band-Leader Kay Kyser was whiling away the slow Monday evenings at Chicago's Blackhawk Restaurant by dishing out a line of folksy chatter to the customers. Out of such primitive horseplay grew his College of Musical Knowledge, a corny radio perennial which was transplanted last week to television (Thurs...