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...need of interrogation than an unlucky citizen in need of assistance. Says a young writer who was among the anonymous hundreds that Harry Maurer taped for the oral history Not Working: "I always get the feeling that the people at the umemployment office think I'm a bum or something." Says another of Maurer's subjects, a welder. of the umemployment rites: "You get a feeling of rejection. Especially the feeling that they're better than...
...Orleans Saints Head Coach Bum Phillips, one of Bear's assistants at A & M, was awed by Bryant's command. "He'd go into a staff meeting," Phillips says, "and he'd never have to say, 'Let me have you-all's attention.' Hell, he had it. You respected him and you liked him. You didn't do it because you were scared of him. Although I was a little scared...
...guess I've grown up with flying in my family," he says "I've been flying since before I was even born." His mother once worked as a stewardess, and his father flew passenger planes for Delta until he died two years ago. "He was a dirt-poor Tennessee bum," Russell says proudly, "He taught me a lot more than just flying...
...other coaches didn't appreciate it when Clemson boss Danny Ford left his first team in for the whole game to run up the score against hapless Wake. It would also seem that Ford learned nothing about coaching etiquette during his years under Bear Bryant, the man who taught Bum Phillips to take off his hat when his team played indoors...
Whistle blowing or bum...