Word: buren
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well-trained ballet troupe, they pranced through their T-formation tricks. Tommy Thompson, Greasy's aging quarterback, who admits to 31 but is nearer 34, handled the ball as deftly as a shell-game operator at a county fair. An old halfback from L.S.U., 2O5-lb. Steve Van Buren, slithered past Giant tacklers for 53 yards to break his own league record for ground gained in a single season (his new mark: 1,050 yards). The Eagles cut the Giants down to size...
...Rough. Seldom had pro football seen such a superbly integrated gang of old pros-and Greasy Neale, 58, was the oldest pro of them all. "I won't sit next to him on the bench," cracks Van Buren, "he's too rough." Greasy runs the Eagles with the casual despotism of an old athlete who can never quite forget that he was a fast, elusive end at West Virginia Wesleyan, where he got his nickname...
Looking back at past U.S. depressions, from Martin Van Buren to Herbert Hoover, Harry Truman got a good-natured laugh when he mentioned his own 1921 bankruptcy-"when the businessman got into politics," meaning himself. But he turned dead serious when he talked of the need for preventing any such panics in the future by "planned" (i.e., not controlled) economy. Said the President: "It is absolutely essential that the economic structure of the United States of America remain absolutely sound and prosperous, for the simple reason that ... we have become the symbol of what governments should stand for-the welfare...
September 1 is the opening date of fall practice. The Art gives up lunches and starts on his 14-hour work day--seven days a week. This 98-hour work week--just 38 hours more than that which Martin Van Buren once proposed--lasts for almost three months. Then Art's yearly cycle begins again...
...slippy, sloppy contest, the Philadelphia Eagles snowplowed through the Chicago Cardinals to 17 first downs. In the fourth period, Steve Van Buren sloshed off tackle for the game's only score, and the Eagles won the title...