Word: billye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seated in her private dressing room behind the scenes of the giant amphitheatre where her husband Billy Rose daily wows Fair audiences with his Aquacade, the shapely backstroker turned repturously to the subject of Harvard boys.
Billy Koepsell at short, Chuck Diven at second, Dick Trexler at third, and Herb Ogden hold forth in the inner defense for the Red and Blue. Chuck Morris operates behind the plate. In the outfield, McDonald, Dignan, MacHarg, and Raffetto seem to be the cream of a rather skimpy crop...
Billy Phelps is the most popular professor Yale ever had. A curricular revolutionist, he started (44 years ago) the first college course in the modern novel. A superb showman, he made world headlines when he invited Gene Tunney, who had just cut Dempsey to ribbons, to lecture Yale students on...
Last week William Lyon Phelps's Autobiography told the whole amazing story, from his happy, athletic childhood as a New Haven Baptist preacher's son to the latest Yale football team-a personal history whose like will probably not be lived again in the U. S. A giant...
Contrary to the general impression that Billy Phelps likes everything and everybody (barring some modern novelists), he protests that he has at least a dozen prejudices: He hates musical comedies, trilogies, "female legs in the daily news," simplified spelling, contact as a verb, big books ("as depressing as soggy porridge...