Word: coaches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington's Union Station, sun-browned Reporter Sprigle, alias Brother Crawford, climbed aboard a Jim Crow coach with his guide, a Negro businessman (and the only Negro who was in on his identity). Only his guide, his family and his Post-Gazette editors knew what Sprigle was up to. "From then on," he wrote, "until I came up out of the South four weeks later, I was black, and in bondage-not quite slavery but not quite freedom, either. My rights of citizenship ran only as far as the nearest white man said they...
...issue of the New York Daily News, ticket agencies representing the wildcats (for commissions as high as 20%) ran five different ads for cut-rate "air coach" flights to the West Coast. In Los Angeles, eight agencies were advertising. Prevailing rate: $99 plus tax (35% cheaper than the scheduled airlines' fare...
...wildcats, who have been making money, plausibly retort that without the cheap "air coach" rates most of their passengers would have gone by train or bus. Said strapping (6 ft. 3½ in.), cocksure Stan Weiss, president of wildcat Standard Air Lines: "The airlines are afraid of us, not because we are taking money away from them, but because the public and the Government now have something to measure them...
Pursell wanted Patton to go to U.S.C. In 1945, already a polished sprinter, Mel Patton enrolled there. He had just finished a two-year hitch in the Navy without ever running a race, and hadn't shaken off his G.I. legs. He reported to Coach Cromwell...
...years at U.S.C. he has produced more championship teams than any track coach in the U.S. He also has more and better talent to work with than any other coach. While other West Coast universities were busy making eyes at prospective football heroes, Southern Cal was ogling both football and track stars...