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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Less publicized than Chicago's Bill De Correvont (now at Northwestern) whose football exploits were headlined from coast to coast when he wound up his career at Austin High with a total of 210 points in 1937, Tom Harmon nevertheless was not unnoticed by U. S. college football scouts. In his senior year he received offers from 16 colleges. But he chose Michigan because his high-school coach, Doug Kerr, was an old Wolverine...
...Arbor campus, Tom Harmon, a gregarious, lantern-jawed six-footer with a Tarzan physique and a yen for swing music, was promptly nicknamed Terrible Tommy, or The Hoosier Hammer. As a freshman he got a D in English (he is studying for a radio career-probably sportcasting) but won the University trophy as the best allround athlete in intramural sports. Sophomore year he was tapped by Sphinx (junior honor society) and elected Pharaoh. Last week diverse sports enthusiasts named a baby and a racehorse after...
...merely a skilful advertisement for flying-for-the-fun-of-it and for the planes which make such flying possible. But the author's enthusiasm alone is more than disarming on that score. What he has done is simply to give a deftly selective account of his own career as an impecunious amateur: the virginal application for lessons; first flight cross-country, by dead reckoning; a siege of "aero-neurosis," parachuting, a flight along the desolate eastward shelf of the continent. By the time he is done he has set straight a number of groundling misapprehensions, has clearly suggested...
...COFFIN FOR DIMITRIOS-Eric Ambler -Knopf ($2). An English detectifiction writer sets out to trace the career of a shady Greek fig-packer whose stabbed body he saw in a Turkish morgue. Author Ambler, international traveler, scripter for Alexander Korda, artfully interweaves spidery intrigue and murder mystery...
Charley d'Autremont played the best game of the career in the futile attempt to stop the Tiger onslaught. On two separate occasions he and Bill Edgar made hairbreadth saves of shots at the Crimson goal when Penson had been thrown to the ground in the melee...