Word: barney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Spivak, leading Varsity sprinter, will have it easy. All he has to do is beat veteran Barney Ewell, who cleaned up in the IC4A's and nationals for Penn State 10 years ago and is still going strong. Coach Mikkola is looking past the K. of C. carnival to February 7, when his Crimson machine gets its first formal workout of the season against Princeton and Army at West Point...
Syndication of the strips in 1915 launched the period of what Author Waugh rhapsodically calls the "old masters"-strips that expressed some real, if limited, human situation: Mutt, lean, mean and grubby, abusing Jeff, "symbol of the little man, kicked, downtrodden, and yet eternally coming back for more"; Barney Google in love with his shy, awkward horse, Spark Plug; Maggie scrambling up the social ladder while Jiggs pathetically tries to escape to the simple joys of corned beef & cabbage at Dinty Moore's place...
...TIME would like very much to have "Chunkin' Charley" Conerly in its backfield (and his pass-catching teammate, ex-West Pointer Barney Poole, at left end). But neither TIME nor Michigan is trading off Bob Chappuis, who holds the alltime passing record in the Big Nine, as tough a league as there...
Planemaker Howard Hughes had taken all that the Senate War Investigating subcommittee had thrown at him, and had given as good as he got. Last week the committee heard from Lieut. General Barney Giles, wartime A.A.F. Chief of Staff, who backed up Hughes...
Last week, living up to his press notices, Chunkin' Charley completed 20 passes against little Chattanooga in the first half of the game. His season's total jumped to 120-a new national record. Most of Charley's passes went to ex-West Pointer Barney Poole, who is just two shy of the record for catches. Charley was certainly a good All-America...