Word: coached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trouble with general managers I is that they never went to college. They cheat on bonuses, cheat on anything." The angry man is the University of Texas' Baseball Coach Bibb Falk, onetime Chicago White Sox outfielder; the objects of his rage are the major leagues, particularly the fast-talking scouts who circle the campuses and lure away the best college baseball players with sweet talk and bonuses. It not only hurts college baseball, argue Bibb and other college coaches, but also hurts the young men who are wooed away. For their reasons, see SPORT, Blame It on the Majors...
...born Poet Engle has fanned the thin flame of poetry down on the farm. He is helped by the fact that the university gives advanced degrees-including a doctorate-in creative writing. Armed with this selling point, Engle recruits fledgling poets with the zeal of a Big Ten football coach wooing a high-school halfback. He gets them jobs on campus, finds them apartments, has even supplied pots and pans for their wives...
...addition to the strict regulations on tender of aid, the colleges and the athletes are placed under many other regulations, which carry penalties of possible loss of eligibility or loss of scholarship aid. Coaches and athletic staff members are not allowed to discuss matters of financial aid with applicants except in campus interviews or in correspondence. Between the time the tender of aid is sent out and the time the student accepts it in writing, no coach or other college employee is allowed to have any contact with him. And any falsification in filling out the Financial aid forms...
...Duffy began his career at BBDO as a messenger boy. Tall, lumbering Charlie Brower also started under inauspicious circumstances. A New Jersey native and Rutgers graduate ('25), he approached the agency in 1926 after a stint as teacher and basketball coach in a New Jersey high school. He was turned down flat. After two years and several more turndowns, he was hired as a copywriter-only to discover that the man who hired him had been fired two days later. After three weeks of sitting around the office, Brower convinced the agency that he really had been hired. When...
...coach Harvey Love said, it was a rough weekend for Harvard crew. The varsity and JV heavyweights did not even qualify for the finals of the Sprints at Princeton, the Crimson lights again lost to Princeton by two seats at Washington, and to add the final touch, the JV lights lost to Navy by six inches...