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...plumb scared," said Coach Alvin Nugent ("Bo") McMillin last week: his flashy Indiana T team had become a red-hot favorite for the Big Ten title...
Cloud Climbing. For making a silk purse out of a sow's ear, button-nosed Bo McMillin rates high as the coach of the year. He took a quick look at his material last September, and winced. Then things began to happen. Bo converted John Cannaday, ex-quarterback and guard, into a center; he moved Russ Deal from guard to tackle. Burly Howie Brown, thrice wounded in Europe, showed up just after the Michigan game, and plugged a hole at guard. Another ex-G.I, All-America End Pete Pihos, became a pile-driving fullback. Negro Halfback George Taliaferro...
...will be jittery Bo McMillin's and slap-happy Indiana's day of days if Purdue can be hurdled this week. If not, the Big Ten title will go to the winner of the Ohio State-Michigan (both once-beaten) game-and it will still be the Hoosiers' best season...
Divorced. Humphrey Bogart, 45, cinema bad man already engaged to his current leading lady, Lauren ("The Look") Bacall; by his third wife, onetime Cine mactress Mayo ("Sluggy") Methot Bo gart ; after nearly seven years in the mari tal ring; in Las Vegas, Nev. Sluggy 's official charges: "Extreme cruelty." Her unofficial reaction: "A very pleasant mar riage." Died. The Reverend Eric Liddell, 44, Scottish athlete and missionary to China; in a Japanese internment camp. At the 1924 Paris Olympic Games, Theology Student Liddell refused to run his special ty, the 100-meter dash, on Sunday, next day set Olympic...
...extreme modernism blew loud in Manhattan's Whitney Museum, which was host last week to "European Artists in America," a show limited to work by 39 Continental refugees. The display ranged all the way from swooning sensuality (Nude Reclining, an oil by Moise Kisling) to attenuated, nihilistic preciosity (Boîte-en-Valise, an "object" by Marcel Duchamp). Between these bypaths lay a two-lane highway of abstraction and surrealism. Outstanding was 44-year-old French Surrealist Yves Tanguy's Un Lieu Oblique (An Oblique Place), a meticulous composition suggesting a segment of interstellar space strewn with broken...