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...sporting dispatch from Danville, Kentucky, last week brought nostalgia to the one-time followers of the Centre College Praying Colonels of Bo McMillan fame. It also calls to mind that only 30 years ago when Centre beat the Crimson, Harvard football was at the pinnacle of Big Time football. Times have changed for both colleges...
...half-century" last year when this Yale game was considered at the time, of far greater import. But perhaps in the long run it is only right that the Centre game should stand out above all as the "darkest hour" for the Crimson as a national power. When Bo McMillan scored the game's only touchdown on a 32 yard dash, he ended more than a five-year streak which included a Rose Bowl victory. He had unwittingly written finis to the scourge of the nation's gridirons. Harvard was to rise to the top again at times...
...Walker quit under pressure; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. The prototype of Novelist Joel Sayre's political satire, Hizzoner the Mayor, O'Brien kept his constituents constantly amused with his malaprop oratory (Sample: "That scientist of scientists, Albert Weinstein"), cooperated with pressagents by accepting such titles as "Ole-Bo-Lon, the Scentless Chrysanthemum" from a Chinese restaurant, habitually referred to New York as "this great metropolis city." So loyal was he to Tammany that when reporters once asked if he had picked a new police commissioner, his reply became apolitical classic: "I haven't had any word...
...mile marathon that started in Metz, will cut through a corner of Belgium, down the middle of France to Marseille and the Riviera, back through Geneva to the finish line in Paris. Along the route some 20 million fans will shout themselves hoarse with cries of "Allez Bo-bet!", "Vas-y Barbotin!") "Bonne chance, Louis...
...Philadelphia Eagles yesterday replaced Earle "Greasy" Nealo with Alvin "Bo" McMillin as head coach...