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...team scored first, about three minutes from the end of the second quarter. After taking the ball on about their 42-yard-line, where a Red kick went out of bounds, the Whites unleashed a determined ground attack which culminated in a two yard touchdown plunge by freshman Jerry Blitz. All the key yardage in this drive was made by Blitz, a 188-pound fullback, in sprints around left end, and by '53 wingback John Ederer in strong side plunges...
However, it seemed to this observer that the White backfield of Lowenstein, Blitz, Edorer, and O'Neill, had the edge over the first string Red quartet of Isenberg, West, Warren Wylie, and Bill Healey. Blitz especially was outstanding, exhibiting both speed and agility in his end sweeps and drive in his line plunges...
Whites: Stargel, le; Nichols, lt; Kanter, lg; Lemay, c; Toepke, rg; Sedgwick, rt; Britton, re; Lowenstein, qb; O'Neill, lhb; Ederer, rhb; Blitz...
Churchill has plaited into this book a whole fistful of narrative threads. It was a year of almost continuous desert warfare, of disaster in Greece and Crete, of crippling losses to U-boats, of devastating blitz, of almost unbroken defeat. What is much more remarkable than their coherent presentation is Churchill's astonishing grasp of innumerable and vastly complex situations as they arose and developed. The greatness of his leadership has never been better documented...
...always, Churchill goes far beyond mere recording. Describing the ruthless German blitz of undefended Belgrade, before Hitler had turned on Russia, he writes: "Out of the nightmare of smoke and fire came the maddened animals released from their shattered cages in the zoological gardens ... A bear, dazed and uncomprehending, shuffled through the inferno with slow and awkward gait down towards the Danube. He was not the only bear who did not understand...