Word: claytons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trouble is basic. The Big Green is a bit green. Starting this season, McLaughry had lost, through graduation, his entire starting backfield of last season, and all but one man of his first offensive line. Men like Johnny Clayton and Bill Roberts are not easy to replace. But Dartmouth's McLaughry has a long history of manufacturing a temporary something out of a seemingly permanent nothing. This year's Indians are no exception, looking progressively better in each succeeding game...
...With Clayton, the most popular bootlegger since Prohibition, irretrievable. McLaughry has been shuffling and dealing three substitute quarterbacks into his winged T. One of them, temporary first stringer, is sophomore Jim Miller, a fair runner and one passer, but totally unreceptive. Another is the more experienced Gone Howard, who is a good ball-handler but throws what must be intercollegiate football's most wobbly pass. The third senior Dick Brown, is neither so deceptive as Howard nor so accurate a pitcher as Miller...
...comedian; he didn't like piano players who tried to be funny. But the comedian could not be stifled for long. In the early '20s Durante became pivot man in a wild comedy trio he formed with Cakewalker Eddie Jackson and Soft-Shoe Dancer Lou Clayton. They "cut up millions of dollars" in the next decade and, says Clayton, never needed a written agreement to cover the division of the spoils...
Spontaneous Shrewdness. Jimmy's personal life, as painted by Biographer Fowler, strongly resembles a Grade B movie plot about show business. He was constantly troubled by a conflict of purpose between the two people closest to him: his wife Jeanne and his closest friend, Clayton. Jeanne Durante wanted Jimmy to spend more time at home with her; Clayton kept pushing him upward in the entertainment world. Jimmy, trying to please both, never did solve that problem, though in effect Clayton won. After Jeanne's death in 1943, Jimmy was often irked by a guilty feeling that...
...couldn't make the family smaller, so we made the business larger." The brothers put up a cotton mill, soon found that to be successful ginners they would have to finance cotton growers, wound up owning four banks, 10,000 acres of cottonland. In partnership with Anderson, Clayton & Co., worldwide U.S. cotton brokers, they built two big cottonseed mills. When they found they had a surplus of cottonseed oil, they built a vegetable-shortening plant to process...