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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only then did the fun begin. An excited crowd gathered before the house and grew by the minute. Half an hour after the polls closed, some of Duplessis' jubilant admirers barged in, woke him, told him that his personal election had been conceded. Said Duplessis: "What did you expect? The trouble with you is that you lack faith...
...Louis insisted that he was through with fighting. Billy Conn, who retired from the ring after his second fight with Joe, was thinking of changing his mind. In Texas, he phoned a promoter-friend that he would go back to Pittsburgh in about a month to begin intensive training...
...season the subject of running was rarely mentioned in the Patton home. Mel never read the sport pages: "I might begin believing those things they write." When the afternoon paper was delivered to their neat, $35-a-month apartment on Beverly Hills' Burton Way, his wife tore out the sport section and put it away. As sensitive to excitement as a punch-drunk fighter is to bells, Patton didn't want any gongs ringing inside...
Without Malarkey. His stomach would begin to churn and his brown eyes got watery and bloodshot. Normally calm and pleasant, he changed into a grouch. Says Mel: "I feel weak-weak as a kitten -when I walk on the field. I feel too tired to warm up, and I don't warm up much. Not as much as other fellows." U.S.C. Coach Dean Cromwell (now head coach of the Olympic track team), who has a reputation for inspiring his athletes with well-chosen malarkey, never goes near...
...glad-handing Dean is a workaday psychologist. He calls every man on his squad "champ" so persuasively that they begin to believe it-and run like it. His tear-jerking "inspirational" speeches that used to go over big with wide-eyed 19-year-olds leave the ex-G.I.s on his present squad pretty cold. Says Patton: "I'm missing something...