Word: beef
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that, contrary to popular opinion, the third-string quarterback does not make more than a full professor. No coach's salary, in fact, exceeds that of a professor. Laundry bills run high, especially for towels, the players always want more to eat, calling for steak when they get roast beef, and incidentals cost tremendously. Services and wages before the war totalled $80,000. Now they have nearly doubled. All in all, the H.A.A. suffered a deficit last year of $90,000, of which the University absorbed $50,000. The rest was carried over into...
Sink or Swim. His father died after eating tainted Army beef during the Spanish-American War-a tragedy which set off young Fiorello's lifelong rage against profiteering, careless government and exploitation. He attacked the unfriendly world with the dash of a Garibaldi...
...Beefs. Bucky Harris' performance, in his first season as Yankee manager, was a classical study in human relations. At 50, his long string of failures after a smashing initial success (as the "boy manager" of the 1924 Washington Senators) had given Bucky a special understanding of athletes and their failings. He never bawled a player out. His theory: a pat on the back is worth two pep talks. He took a talented but out-of-sorts team, listened to all the complaints, took the players' side in any beef with the front office. Once, when a Yankee pitcher...
...Roast Beef but No Steak...
Considerably more touchy is the question of the Varsity Club Training Table, which opened this week. "What steaks?" seems to be the unanimous reply to the traditional inquiry. "We get roast beef on the day of a game." Actually, the Varsity footballers get pretty much the same quality food as their undergraduate brothers, with a few alterations in the menu. For instance toast (not bread) appears on the training table. There is plenty of milk, but no coffee and only occasionally tea, while fried foods and sweets are also avoided...